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.
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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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