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William S. Burroughs

"But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude."

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"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

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"Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists."

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"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."

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"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."

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"Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art."

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"The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art."

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"Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star."

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"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."

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"The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation."

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"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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"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."
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"The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility."
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"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
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"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage."
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"The face of evil is always the face of total need."
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