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From Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
- Language is a virus from outer space.
- My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
- I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember…
- Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like…
- Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.
- Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as…
- After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want…
- After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.
- 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…
- It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent…
- 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…
- The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
- 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…
- The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to…
- when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
- 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…
- If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.
- 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…
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