Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks 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. BURROUGHSI’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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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