William S. BurroughsWriting 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… ▶372Reading
William S. BurroughsHumility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.373Truth
William S. BurroughsAmericans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2007). Naked Lunch: The Restore… ▶341Philosophy
William S. BurroughsThere is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2007). Word V… ▶374ReadingTruth
William S. BurroughsI bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you … ▶331LoveReading
William S. BurroughsYou were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you. ✨ William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (1982). Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-195… ▶353LovePoliticsSadness
William S. BurroughsOnce the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.365Politics
William S. BurroughsCommunication must become total and conscious before we can stop it. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2007). Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader, p.209, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.<… ▶354Reading
William S. BurroughsEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2001). Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997, Semiot… ▶321Life
William S. BurroughsWouldn'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 -… ▶332HumorSadness
William S. BurroughsI started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforw… ▶376LifeTime
William S. BurroughsThere couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. ✨ Personal Quotes/ Biography. www.imdb.com.332DeathHumanity
William S. BurroughsIn deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. ✨ Queer: A Novel. Book by William S. Burroughs, 1985.343ReadingSadnessTime
William S. BurroughsOur national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror. ✨ Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Grove Press, (p. 201), 1959.321Death
William S. BurroughsIf 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. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2… ▶343DeathReading
William S. BurroughsThe self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines. ✨ William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (1976). The retreat diaries333Humor
William S. BurroughsO death where is thy sting? The man is never on time. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2007). Naked Lunch: The Restored Text, p.289, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.344DeathTime
William S. BurroughsSome people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.355Humanity
William S. BurroughsLanguage is a virus from outer space. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.322Reading
William S. BurroughsHappinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. ✨ The Place of Dead Roads.322Death
William S. BurroughsIf you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with … ▶311Truth
William S. BurroughsThe idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up… ▶367HopeThoughtTime
William S. BurroughsLike many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.301Humanity
William S. BurroughsThe junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the … ▶323Truth
William S. BurroughsThe 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 (2007). Word Virus: The W… ▶323LoveReading
William S. BurroughsI think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control eve… ▶378HumanityThought
William S. BurroughsBuild 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 righ… ▶301Reading
William S. BurroughsI am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself. ✨ William S. Burrough… ▶312LifeReading
William S. BurroughsThere are no innocent bystanders. ✨ William S. Burroughs (1973). Exterminator!: A novel, Viking Pr291Reading
William S. BurroughsEver see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way whorehouse mirror and charged a sawski to watch it. He never got the needle out… ▶291Reading
