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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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The world is now a virus.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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