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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

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Change Crazy Mindset Myself Thinking
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Fact Information
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Answer Learning Mindset Question Relax Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Afraid Face Meaning People Shadow
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
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Appearance Evil Face Need
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Act Areas Explorer Myself Point Space Survey Writing
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Defense Feeling Intense Love Reserve Risk
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Act Advantage Himself Man
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
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Deep Hard Time Heaven Hell Live Man Realize Yourself
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Aware Knowledge Surrounding
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
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Control Image Machine
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. BURROUGHS

Artifact Design Man Present Science Space Travel
If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself

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