Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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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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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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