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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
