All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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