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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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.
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.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.