Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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The world is now a virus.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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