There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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