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.
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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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