Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDo not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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