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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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