Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMan 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The world is now a virus.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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