There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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