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The Composite City where all human potentials are spread out in a vast silent market. — William S. Burroughs

I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live. — William S. Burroughs

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs

My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. — William S. Burroughs

Melancholy Baby dies from an overdose of time — William S. Burroughs

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color. — William S. Burroughs

The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host. — William S. Burroughs

The end of the rope stops in the palm of God. — Dillon Burroughs

When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire? — Jeremiah Burroughs

Sodomy is as old as the human species. — 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 trade. — William S. Burroughs

The boys eat happily looking into each other's eyes. Blood runs down their chins. — William S. Burroughs

The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines. — William S. Burroughs

I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph. — Augusten Burroughs

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

two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws — William S. Burroughs

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes. — William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future. — William S. Burroughs

The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government ... — William S. Burroughs

Ever notice how many expressions carry over from queers to con men? Like 'raise,' letting someone know you are in the same line? — William S. Burroughs

God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours. — Dillon Burroughs

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. — William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve. — William S. Burroughs

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do. — William S. Burroughs

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak. — William S. Burroughs

Thou shalt not be such a shit, you don't know you are one. — William S. Burroughs

God does not remove us from all harm; He uses harm to move us close to Him. — Dillon Burroughs

You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it. — Dillon Burroughs

Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did. — William S. Burroughs

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. — William S. Burroughs

Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior. — Augusten Burroughs

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better. — William S. Burroughs

It's neat how money smells nothing like anything in the world except money, just like cardboard. — Augusten Burroughs

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness. — William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager. — William S. Burroughs

Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole. — William S. Burroughs

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion

A chaotic situation is always deliberately produced. Ask yourself who or what sort of creature could benefit from such a situation. — William S. Burroughs

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 face the possibility. — William S. Burroughs

And she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart. — Augusten Burroughs

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.' — William S. Burroughs

Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm? — William S. Burroughs

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing. — William S. Burroughs

Anything that can be accomplished chemically can be accomplished in other ways. — William S. Burroughs

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time ... — William S. Burroughs

We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us. — Dillon Burroughs

Too perfect to be sexually attractive. — William S. Burroughs

A coprophage calls for a plate, shits on it and eats the shit, exclaiming, Mmmm, that's my rich substance. — William S. Burroughs

THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you hate your life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and it doesn't fit you. — Augusten Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. — William S. Burroughs

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction. — William S. Burroughs

already, and the fuzz walks in on some newlyweds from Sioux Falls. — William S. Burroughs

I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means of increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. — William S. Burroughs

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter. — William S. Burroughs

I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about. — Augusten Burroughs

Danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of
direct confrontation, you are immortal. — William S. Burroughs

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. — William S. Burroughs

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. — William S. Burroughs

My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens. — Augusten Burroughs

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. — William S. Burroughs

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant. — William S. Burroughs

the bridesmaid's hand in his, "Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding." The — Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you hate life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't fit you. — Augusten Burroughs

The figure had emerged from a lightless region where everything we have been taught, all the conventional feelings, do not apply. — William S. Burroughs

I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show. — Augusten Burroughs

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
— William S. Burroughs

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less. — Dillon Burroughs

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer. — William S. Burroughs

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit. — William S. Burroughs

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. — William S. Burroughs

NOTHING happens by coincidence. — William S. Burroughs

All you cat lovers, remember all the millions of cats mewling through the world's rooms lay all their hopes and trust in you. — William S. Burroughs

The name's Clem Williamson Snide. I am a private asshole. — 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. — William S. Burroughs

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image. — William S. Burroughs

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
- pg. 41 — William S. Burroughs

In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen — William S. Burroughs

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk. — William S. Burroughs

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust. — William S. Burroughs

To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know. — William S. Burroughs

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Lord watches over us every moment of every day. He is there
and He cares
about every step and every breath. — Dillon Burroughs

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back. — Augusten Burroughs

When I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow. — William S. Burroughs

The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever? — William S. Burroughs

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

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. — William S. Burroughs

He was a sad poison nice guy more poison than nice. — William S. Burroughs

You're both mother fuckers. She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest. — William S. Burroughs

The face of 'evil' is always the face of total need. — William S. Burroughs

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs

The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more. — Dillon Burroughs

Mohammed? Are you kidding? He was dreamed up by the Mecca Chamber of Commerce. — William S. Burroughs

In spouse, I mostly hear "S.mouse," the name of Chris Lilley's blackface teenage rapper in Angry Boys. And — Augusten Burroughs

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself. — Augusten Burroughs

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy. — William S. Burroughs