Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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