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. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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