In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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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 cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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