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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOpen your mind and let the pictures out
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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