Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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