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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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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 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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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