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
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
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open.… — 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
There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation… — 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
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months… — 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
I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute, & if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it — 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
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — 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
Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony… — 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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