Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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