Burroughs Quote by William Burroughs Download Open image ““The name's Clem Williamson Snide. I am a private asshole.”” — William Burroughs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burroughs Detectives Private-investigator
“Your middle name might be discreet, but mine is resourceful, Darling.” — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
“I know the private was a grunt just by his attitude. You’ve got to love those guys; they’re the real people of life. And… — Ed Kugler Copy Share Image
“When someone respects you, s/he confronts you in private before taking you in public and/or stabbing in the back and backbiting you...” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
“My name is John Taylor. I’m a private eye, specialising in cases of the weird and uncanny. I don’t solve murders, I don’t do… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“He's tender and defenseless, as if every part of him is exposed. He's not the asshole I thought he was, not even close. What… — Suzanne Young Copy Share Image
“Mr. Awkward rolls up between us, lights a cigarette, makes himself comfortable. It’s the same bastard who shows up after you’ve bumped uglies with… — Victoria Scott Copy Share Image
“I opened my mouth to argue with him but he stopped me by pressing his lips to mine and I forgot my own name… — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
“Personally, I felt terrible for telling Truth my name was Schnitzeldoodle. I still think about it. Sometimes I just have to rock myself back… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“So he is putting down junk and coming on with tea. I take three drags, Jane looked at him and her flesh crystallized. I… — William Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by throwing a… — William Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Oh be careful! There they go again!" said the old queen as his string broke spilling his balls over the floor.... "Stop them will… — William Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Once a problem has been identified, it is already too late for a solution.” — William Burroughs Copy Share Image
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space." — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“What's with the serum?" I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative absurdity -… — David Salle Copy Share Image