Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBe just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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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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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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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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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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