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Any Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
- Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their…
- Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
- You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
- Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is…
- Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.
- No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization…
- I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring…
- Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that…
- The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain…
- Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
- I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first…
- Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey,"…
- You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to…
- 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…
- Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know…
- It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to…
- To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I…
- If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.
- God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the…
- A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and…
- What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they…
- You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk..
- The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People,…
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