How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSArtists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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