Life is a vacation from two eternities.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHe who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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.
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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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(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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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