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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More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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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