“It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves… — 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
