Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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