I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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