Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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