Purely Negative Quotes by William S. Burroughs

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• Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
• After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope…
• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
• A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
• Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
• How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
• Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
• Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no…
• Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
• Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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