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Fact Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
- Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -…
- Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
- Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
- We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
- Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey,"…
- All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?
- Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance…
- There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
- In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it…
- What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they…
- In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry,…
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