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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.

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia is just having the right information.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Information Myself Right
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Crazy Listening Mental Paid Sympathy Yourself
(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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Death Dreams People Society
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

People Silence Verbal
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creation Imagination Live Myself World
I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Appearance Evil Face Need
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Hell Myself People Police Weapon
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Allow Business Mindset Nation Sarcasm Thankful
Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Language One Liner Space Virus
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Accident Magical Universe Willing
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Cat Growth Myself People Preference
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Answer Learning Mindset Question Relax Yourself
There are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Crowd Innocent

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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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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