Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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The world is now a virus.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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