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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.

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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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.
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.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
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.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.