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William S. Burroughs Quote: “As an old junk pusher told me, ‘Watch whose money you pick up.’”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “There’s a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “The face of evil is always the face of total need.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Like Spain, I am bound to the past.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “When you stop growing you start dying. An addict never stops growing. – A user is a continual state of shrinking and growing in his daily cycle of shot-need for shot completed.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Modern man has lost the option of silence.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. “I don’t have any whiskey,” may be a fact but it is not a truth.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light...”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “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 make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness...”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “The Planet drifts to random insect doom.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Melancholy Baby dies from an overdose of time.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “I see no reason why the artistic world can’t absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can’t we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Why are we here? We’re here to go!”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.”
William S. Burroughs Quote: “Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.”
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