Brion Gysin Quotes

• As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

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  Two, People, World

  Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.188, Wesleyan University Press

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• What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

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  Nuts, Doe, Cracks

  Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.174, The Overlook Press

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• The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?

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  Thinking, Phrases, Poet

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• I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

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  Crazy, Real, Night

  Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.77, The Overlook Press

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• Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?' is all that ever held us here in the first place. Fear. The answer to the Riddle of the Ages has actually been out in the street since the First Step in Space. Who runs may read but few people run fast enough. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

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  Running, Nuts, Feet

  Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.174, Wesleyan University Press

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• Man is a bad animal.

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  Animal, Men

  Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• Writing is fifty years behind painting.

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  Writing, Years, Fifty

  Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.131, Wesleyan University Press

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• I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

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  Fun, Games, Careers

  "Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age". Book edited by Jose Ferez Kuri (p. 4), 2003.

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• The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.

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  Real, Writing, Firsts

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• You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

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  Two, Nails, Hammers

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• Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

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  Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville (1973). “Brion Gysin let the mice in”, Ultramarine Pub Co

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• When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go.

  Brion Gysin

  Invisible, Fear Of Love, Thunder

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