Psychology Quotes by William S. Burroughs

13 Psychology quotes by William S. Burroughs

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Burroughs’ raw, unconventional take on mental life emerges in these 13 fragments. They serve as a gritty starter for readers drawn to his rebellious tone.

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Open your mind and let the pictures out

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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change

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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place.”

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and…

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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

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Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts…

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We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated…

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I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and…

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The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole…

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“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.”

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“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.”

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

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For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.…

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When you stop growing you start dying.

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Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .…

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When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

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“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing…

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“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild…

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“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,…

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You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow…

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[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

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“It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.”

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