How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSArtists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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