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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
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St. Louis
Missouri
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I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
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A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.
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If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe is the word, gentlemen, heh heh for passive intercourse or (b) if he is a different type baboon more extrovert and well-adjusted, lead an attack on an even weaker baboon if he can find one.
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I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.
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The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.
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Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.
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Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
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Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
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No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.
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As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
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Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
William S. Burroughs
I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
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Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
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Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
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