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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
Language is a virus from outer space.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
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.
