More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
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.
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.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
