Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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