Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBe just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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 face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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 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.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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