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Only Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
- The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
- Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
- Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
- Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies…
- 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…
- 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…
- Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
- 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…
- The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
- 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…
- he asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out…
- I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed…
- There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a…
- The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment;…
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