The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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