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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Paranoia is just having the right information.
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
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.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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.
