How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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