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Other Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
- Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
- It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of…
- My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it…
- If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
- Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that…
- Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour