He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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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The world is now a virus.
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