William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
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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.
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Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.
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Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
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A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.
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Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
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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.
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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.
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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
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In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.
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I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.
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He asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out what we are actually doing and who we actually are, that is the point of living...it may be only a few seconds...a few seconds of significant actions, out of a lifetime.
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For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.
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Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
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Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
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Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.