The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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