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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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.
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.
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.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
