Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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(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 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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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 am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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