Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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The world is now a virus.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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