When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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