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[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.
William S. Burroughs
Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.
William S. Burroughs
I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.
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It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
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There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. Burroughs
I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.
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I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.
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I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
William S. Burroughs
Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.
William S. Burroughs
I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.
William S. Burroughs
[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.
William S. Burroughs
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
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The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
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