Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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