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Who Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
- A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
- How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
- Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
- 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…
- Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
- There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
- No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
- Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet…
- After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want…
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