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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
