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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
Language is a virus from outer space.
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
