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William S Burroughs Quotes
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The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction (William S Burroughs Quotes)
In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life (William S Burroughs Quotes)
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Wouldn't it be great, as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like (William S Burroughs Quotes)
I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time (William S Burroughs Quotes)
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 build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency (William S Burroughs Quotes)
We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place (William S Burroughs Quotes)
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey (William S Burroughs Quotes)
There may be people who like centipedes... Personally, I would regard such an individual with deep suspicion. I have just petted my cat: "And how is this good little cat beast?" Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on his underbelly? "And here is my good big centipede!" If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race (William S Burroughs Quotes)
People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face (William S Burroughs Quotes)
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 (William S Burroughs Quotes)
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute, and if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief (William S Burroughs Quotes)
A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what’s going on (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside (William S Burroughs Quotes)
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all (William S Burroughs Quotes)
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager. ' (William S Burroughs Quotes)
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous (William S Burroughs Quotes)
A psychotic is a guy who’s just found out what’s going on (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will (William S Burroughs Quotes)