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Way Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -…
- The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians:…
- Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
- 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…
- The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
- If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
- Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and…
- It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to…
- 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…
- 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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