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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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.
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.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
