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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
