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Cats or People

“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 it.” ~ William S. Burroughs

Posted byA Pondering MindDecember 28, 2022December 28, 2022Posted inUncategorizedTags: Cats, people, Quotes, William S. Burroughs6 Comments on Cats or People

Your Mind

“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” ~ William S. Burroughs

Posted byA Pondering MindDecember 9, 2022Posted inUncategorizedTags: Caring, Crazy, Mind, people, Quotes, William S. Burroughs6 Comments on Your Mind

Leaders

Posted byA Pondering MindJune 3, 2018June 2, 2018Posted inUncategorizedTags: Facts, Leaders, Quotes, William S. Burroughs6 Comments on Leaders

Games

All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. -William S. Burroughs

Posted byA Pondering MindJanuary 2, 2018January 1, 2018Posted inUncategorizedTags: Games, Losers, Quotes, William S. Burroughs, Winners

Nothing Exists ….

Posted byA Pondering MindDecember 5, 2017December 4, 2017Posted inUncategorizedTags: people, Quotes, William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

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

Posted byA Pondering MindJuly 15, 2017Posted inUncategorizedTags: Beat Generation, Quotes, Thoughts, William S. Burroughs, Writer

Sunday Morning Quote

Posted byA Pondering MindAugust 30, 2015August 30, 2015Posted inUncategorizedTags: Offbeat, people, Quotes, Rundown, Suburbs, Thoughts, William S. Burroughs, Wisdom

Trouble

Posted byA Pondering MindAugust 23, 2014August 23, 2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: Author, Business, Folks, Quotes, Smallpox, Thoughts, Trouble, William S. Burroughs, Wisdom, World, Writer17 Comments on Trouble

Problems

  No problems can be solved, and all solutions lead to more problems.         Source

Posted byA Pondering MindAugust 3, 2014Posted inUncategorizedTags: Problems, Quotes, Solutions, Solved, Thoughts, William S. Burroughs, Wisdom12 Comments on Problems

Wisdom

Posted byA Pondering MindJune 10, 2014June 10, 2014Posted inQuotationsTags: Experience, Quotes, Thinking, Thoughts, William S. Burroughs, Wisdom2 Comments on Wisdom

Observation

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing. — William S. Burroughs

Posted byA Pondering MindDecember 2, 2013Posted inUncategorizedTags: Artist, Creative, Exist, Observation, Quotes, Thoughts, Viewing, William S. Burroughs, Wisdom

Trouble

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folk’s who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. — William S. Burroughs

Posted byA Pondering MindNovember 25, 2013Posted inQuotationsTags: Business, Mind, Quotes, Smallpox, Thoughts, Trouble, Virus, William S. Burroughs, Wisdom, Writer12 Comments on Trouble

Your mind will answer ….

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

Posted byA Pondering MindOctober 5, 2013Posted inQuotationsTags: Answers, Mind, Questions, Quotes, Relax, Thoughts, William S. Burroughs, Wisdom

Artists to my mind are the real… – William S. Burroughs

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

Posted byA Pondering MindJuly 5, 2013Posted inQuotationsTags: Architects, Artists, Change, Legislators, Mind, Politic, Political, Quotes, Thoughts, William S. Burroughs

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