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. BURROUGHSHustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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The world is now a virus.
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