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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Open your mind and let the pictures out
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
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.
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.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
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.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
