"Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating."

-- William S. Burroughs

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“In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?”
“Spiritual success depends on your Conductivity. No Spiritual Conductivity, no progress!”
“Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political.”

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“The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
“The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.”
“I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.”
“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”
“It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.”

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