I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSArtists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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There are no innocent bystanders.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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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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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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