The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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