I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI’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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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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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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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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