A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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 stop growing you start dying.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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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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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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