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William S. Burroughs
February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

    Topics: Education

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

   

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

   

Language is a virus from outer space.

   

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

   

A functioning police state needs no police.

   

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.

   

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

   

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

   

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

   

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

   

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

   

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

   

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

   

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

   

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

   

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

   

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

   

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

   

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 to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

   

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