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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
Language is a virus from outer space.
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.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
