Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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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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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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