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The nonconformist here may be beat down by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.
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Belief is a meaningless word. What does it mean? I believe something. Okay, now you have someone who is hearing voices and believes in these voices. It doesn't mean they have any necessary reality. Your whole concept of your I is an illusion. You have to give something called an I before you speak of what the I believes.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool! Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
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The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.
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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
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The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.
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Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
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As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
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If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.
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When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
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I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.
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There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.
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in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
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