Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI’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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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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 paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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