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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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