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Some Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- 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…
- Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
- And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer…
- His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura…
- Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of…
- 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…
- God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the…
- I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never…
- A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
- For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like…
- In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry,…
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