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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.
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.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
