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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.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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.
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
