If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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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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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Man 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.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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