William S. Burroughs Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- William S. Burroughs (random)
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- William S. Burroughs Books & Videos
- Type:
- Writer
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth Date / Year:
- February 5, 1914
- Death Date / Year:
- August 2, 1997
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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A functioning police state needs no police. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Language is a virus from outer space. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nothing is true, everything is permitted. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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The face of evil is always the face of total need. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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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: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm? William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. William S. Burroughs | Refcard PDF ↑
