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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Open your mind and let the pictures out
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
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.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
