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. BURROUGHSA consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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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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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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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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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’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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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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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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