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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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.