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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
