There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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 are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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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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