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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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.
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
