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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Topic: Inspirational
William S. Burroughs
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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But just wait until your thinking is basically different from the thinking of a boss or a teacher. You will find out that you aren't supposed to think. Life is an entanglement of lies to hid its basic mechanisms.
From The Place of Dead Roads
Topic: Education
William S. Burroughs
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Land of the Dead. No breakfast. No liquor. No dinner.
From My Education: A Book of Dreams
Topic: Education
William S. Burroughs
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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
Topic: Life
William S. Burroughs
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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
From Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs
Topic: Death
William S. Burroughs
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when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
Topic: Death
William S. Burroughs
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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.
Topic: Love
William S. Burroughs
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
Topic: Death, Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Topic: Inspirational
William S. Burroughs
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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But just wait until your thinking is basically different from the thinking of a boss or a teacher. You will find out that you aren't supposed to think. Life is an entanglement of lies to hid its basic mechanisms.
From The Place of Dead Roads
Topic: Education
William S. Burroughs
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Land of the Dead. No breakfast. No liquor. No dinner.
From My Education: A Book of Dreams
Topic: Education
William S. Burroughs
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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
Topic: Life
William S. Burroughs
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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
From Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs
Topic: Death
William S. Burroughs
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when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
Topic: Death
William S. Burroughs
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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.
Topic: Love
William S. Burroughs
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
Topic: Death, Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Topic: Inspirational
William S. Burroughs
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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But just wait until your thinking is basically different from the thinking of a boss or a teacher. You will find out that you aren't supposed to think. Life is an entanglement of lies to hid its basic mechanisms.
From The Place of Dead Roads
Topic: Education
William S. Burroughs
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Land of the Dead. No breakfast. No liquor. No dinner.
From My Education: A Book of Dreams
Topic: Education
William S. Burroughs
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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
Topic: Life
William S. Burroughs
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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
From Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs
Topic: Death
William S. Burroughs
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when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
Topic: Death
William S. Burroughs
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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.
Topic: Love
William S. Burroughs
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
Topic: Philosophical
William S. Burroughs
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Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
Topic: Death, Philosophical
William S. Burroughs