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Inspirational Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
- Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
- In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
- I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
- Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
- Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
- Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
- The face of evil is always the face of total need.
- Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
- No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
- Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
- The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
- Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
- My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
- Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
- Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
- You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
- An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
- In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
- Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
- Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.
- Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
- Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
- When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
- As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
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