Quotes of William Burroughs - somelinesforyou

“ Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. ”

- William Burroughs

“ How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. ”

- William Burroughs

“ A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start. ”

- William Burroughs

“ It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ”

- William Burroughs

“ It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido. ”

- William Burroughs

“ How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. ”

- William Burroughs

“ It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido. ”

- William Burroughs

“ How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way, without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs, digest the food, and shovel the shit out. ”

- William Burroughs

“ How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. ”

- William Burroughs

“ My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ”

- William Burroughs

“ 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. ”

- William Burroughs

“ How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. ”

- William Burroughs

“ A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start. ”

- William Burroughs

“ How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way, without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs, digest the food, and shovel the shit out. ”

- William Burroughs

“ Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith. ”

- William Burroughs

“ My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age. ”

- William Burroughs

“ My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age. ”

- William Burroughs

“ The youth rebellion is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down and be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe. ”

- William Burroughs

“ 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. ”

- William Burroughs

“ In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate… ”

- William Burroughs

“ We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself. ”

- William Burroughs
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