I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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.
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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.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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