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. BURROUGHSYour mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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