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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDesperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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The world is now a virus.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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