Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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 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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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