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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLove? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The world is now a virus.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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