People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe face of evil is always the face of total need.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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