More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
