The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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
According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters. — 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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