Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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 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
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The world is now a virus.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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