I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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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 prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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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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