Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMan 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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