There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMan is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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The world is now a virus.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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