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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
