A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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