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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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.
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.
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.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
