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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.
― William S. Burroughs
Business
Mind
Atheism
William S. Burroughs
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.
― William S. Burroughs
Running
Believe
Thinking
William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
― William S. Burroughs
Change
Art
Real
William S. Burroughs
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
― William S. Burroughs
Alive
William S. Burroughs
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
― William S. Burroughs
Hate
Conformity
William S. Burroughs
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
― William S. Burroughs
Cat
Pet
Doe
William S. Burroughs
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.
― William S. Burroughs
Running
Believe
Thinking
William S. Burroughs
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
― William S. Burroughs
One Day
William S. Burroughs
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.
― William S. Burroughs
Goal
Suffering
Facts
William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
― William S. Burroughs
Change
Art
Real
William S. Burroughs
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.
― William S. Burroughs
Spiritual
Hate
Stupid
William S. Burroughs
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
― William S. Burroughs
Men
Long
Heaven
William S. Burroughs
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
― William S. Burroughs
Change
Believe
Despair
William S. Burroughs
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.
― William S. Burroughs
Reality
Way
Faces
William S. Burroughs
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
― William S. Burroughs
Bystanders
Firsts
Innocent
William S. Burroughs
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
― William S. Burroughs
Communication
People
Silence
William S. Burroughs
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
― William S. Burroughs
Magic
Happens
William S. Burroughs
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
― William S. Burroughs
Alive
William S. Burroughs
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.
― William S. Burroughs
Crazy
Pits
Fool
William S. Burroughs
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
― William S. Burroughs
Pain
Order
Use
William S. Burroughs
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