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Thinking Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.
- I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces…
- You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to…
- 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…
- Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give…
- I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
- I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous…
- Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing…
- The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment;…
- The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the…
- The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People,…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I don't think I have a signature. — J. J. Abrams