Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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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.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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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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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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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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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