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You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
William S. Burroughs -
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
William S. Burroughs
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.
William S. Burroughs -
That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
William S. Burroughs -
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
William S. Burroughs -
Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
William S. Burroughs -
If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.
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
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
William S. Burroughs -
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
William S. Burroughs -
Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.
William S. Burroughs -
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.
William S. Burroughs -
O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
William S. Burroughs -
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.
William S. Burroughs