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Up Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
- No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
- Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
- 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…
- 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…
- The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will…
- As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
- The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers
- Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete…
- I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous…
- America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The…
- Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
- Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
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