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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
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.
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.
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
