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All Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
- Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
- A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
- I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
- Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
- Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
- The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
- Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't…
- All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's…
- I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people…
- A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on…
- I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the…
- We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
- All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?
- Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give…
- Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And…
- A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.
- The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing.
- If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
- It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to…
- I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are…
- If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic…
- This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles,…
- Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute…
- If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish…
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- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle