The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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