In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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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 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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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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