When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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