The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHome is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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 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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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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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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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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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