No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“here lies a stupid son of a bitch who tried to make Death a company cop” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Moor did not have tuberculosis or kidney trouble or undulant fever.He was sick with the sickness of death.Death was in every cell… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Death was in every cell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Consider the impasse of a one God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere since He is already everywhere.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Moor was a thin young man with blond hair that was habitually somewhat long. He had pale blue eyes and very white… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
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