Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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