There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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 nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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