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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Paranoia is just having the right information.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
