Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhat 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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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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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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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.
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I’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.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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