Paranoia is just having the right information.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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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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