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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Language is a virus from outer space.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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.
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
