The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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