One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know. .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac]. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers. — 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 Image
“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 Image
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — 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 many years.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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