Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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