Life is a vacation from two eternities.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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