William S. Burroughs Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

  William S. Burroughs

  Magic, Coincidence In Life, Happens

• This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Games, Principles

  "The War Universe". Grand Street, No. 37, 1991.

• 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.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Believe, Thinking

• 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. Burroughs

  Real, Hands, Conspiracy

  Source: realitystudio.org

• Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

  William S. Burroughs

  Powerful, War, Knowing

  "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (A One God Universe)". Studio album by William S. Burroughs with The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, September 28, 1993.

• The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.

  William S. Burroughs

  Earthquakes, Mind, Age

• This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Games, May

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

• Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Two, People

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

• Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cutting, Viruses, Form

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “Cities of the Red Night: A Novel”, p.166, Holt Paperbacks

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