Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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 project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Do 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.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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