William S. Burroughs Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.
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.
I was asked: "Why did you stop writing?" I would not know any more than I would know why I started writing. Try not to be as obtuse as you are.
two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government ...
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers
The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
But there are higher stakes than youth or Latah, games where only two players in the world know what the stakes are.
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute,
& if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it
& if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it
If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.
The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a toilet wall closing on the Last Erection.
The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
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.
A coprophage calls for a plate, shits on it and eats the shit, exclaiming, Mmmm, that's my rich substance.
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
You're both mother fuckers. She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest.
In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
- pg. 41
- pg. 41
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
Perhaps why I am so uniquely terrible is simply that I represent total Dissent. Total Dissent. T.D. 19 + 4 = 23.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.
How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.