William S. Burroughs | hope
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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William S. Burroughs | happiness
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
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William S. Burroughs | dreams
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
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William S. Burroughs | change
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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William S. Burroughs | change
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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William S. Burroughs | business
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Quote from William S. Burroughs
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…
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