You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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There 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.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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