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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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