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. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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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