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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

William S. Burroughs

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Business Mindset Yourself
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Cat Growth Myself People Preference
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Avoid Future Person Time Yourself
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Future Leak Present Yourself
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. BURROUGHS

Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Feeling Hope Myself Politics Rise State
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Accident Magical Universe Willing
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Act Advantage Himself Man
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Black Effective Magic Operate
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Gun Innocent People Weapon
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Allow Business Mindset Nation Sarcasm Thankful

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