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William S. Burroughs Quotes: Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!
         

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!


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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse



After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'



After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.



Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.



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.

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.



I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.



Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.



The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.



Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.



Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

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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Those who know the least obey the best.

Those who know the least obey the best.



When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.

When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.



It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.



Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.



I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.



You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?

You can't really trust anybody who doesn't talk a lot, because how would you know what they're thinking?



Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned.

Every political creation of new money transfers wealth from workers and savers to those who are spending in the market place newly created monetary units which no one has earned.



I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.



To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.




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