There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The world is now a virus.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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