Want Quotes by William S. Burroughs

14 Want quotes by William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs strips desire down to its raw, often unsettling core. In this modest set of 14 lines you’ll sense his rebellious voice and the restless energy that fuels his musings.

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In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

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No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the…

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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back…

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“How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to…

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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to…

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In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what…

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The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's…

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Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or…

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A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing.…

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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t…

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There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power,…

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Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent.…

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

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For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.…

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When you stop growing you start dying.

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Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .…

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When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

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“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing…

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“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild…

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“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,…

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You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

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