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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror (William S Burroughs Quotes)
The 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 Quotes)
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client (William S Burroughs Quotes)
In the U. S. You have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectuals are deviants in the U. S (William S Burroughs Quotes)
The 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 client (William S Burroughs Quotes)
1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. Always take back everything if you possibly can (William S Burroughs Quotes)
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Remember the Italian steward who put on women's clothes and so filched a seat in a lifeboat? A cur in human shape, certainly he was born and saved to set a new standard by which to judge infamy and shame (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal (William S Burroughs Quotes)
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 to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? 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)
You see control can never be a means to any practical end. … control can never be a means to anything but more control … like junk (William S Burroughs Quotes)
The title means exactly what the words say: naked Lunch - a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages (William S Burroughs Quotes)
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 S Burroughs Quotes)
The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe (William S Burroughs Quotes)
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers (William S Burroughs Quotes)
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting (William S Burroughs Quotes)
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 (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. I don't have any whisky, may be a fact but it is not a truth (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing (William S Burroughs Quotes)
Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'and we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another. ' (William S Burroughs Quotes)
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 S Burroughs Quotes)
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination (William S Burroughs Quotes)
I 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 events (William S Burroughs Quotes)
The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window (William S Burroughs Quotes)
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question why did you start using narcotics in the first place? Should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area (William S Burroughs Quotes)
No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water (William S Burroughs Quotes)
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work (William S Burroughs Quotes)