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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOpen your mind and let the pictures out
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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