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William S Burroughs Quotes

There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow Jones in 1929 Picture Quote #1

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life… Picture Quote #1

You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative Picture Quote #1

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve Picture Quote #1

I 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 emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink Picture Quote #1

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido Picture Quote #1

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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive Picture Quote #1

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on Picture Quote #1

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it Picture Quote #1

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle Picture Quote #1

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not Picture Quote #1

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers Picture Quote #1

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Danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal Picture Quote #1

I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go Picture Quote #1

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction Picture Quote #1

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

So he is putting down junk and coming on with tea. I take three drags, Jane looked at him and her flesh crystallized. I leaped up screaming

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Ever 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 of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit - - Kid, it was tasty Picture Quote #1

For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank Picture Quote #1

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love Picture Quote #1

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible Picture Quote #1

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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He kisses the D. S. 's hand thrusting his fingers into his mouth (the D. S. must feel his toothless gums) complaining he has lost teeth

Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary. ' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities Picture Quote #1

There is a Senate and a Congress who carry on endless sessions discussing garbage disposal and outhouse inspection, the only two questions over which they have jurisdiction Picture Quote #1

In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen Picture Quote #1

What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish Picture Quote #1

All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another. I could not have done what I have done as a writer had I been a gifted mathematician or physicist. honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice Picture Quote #1

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There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow Jones in 1929 (William S Burroughs Quotes) To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life… (William S Burroughs Quotes) You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative (William S Burroughs Quotes) There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve (William S Burroughs Quotes) I 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 emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink (William S Burroughs Quotes) If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido (William S Burroughs Quotes) Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive (William S Burroughs Quotes) A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on (William S Burroughs Quotes) I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it (William S Burroughs Quotes) As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle (William S Burroughs Quotes) The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not (William S Burroughs Quotes) The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers (William S Burroughs Quotes) Danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal (William S Burroughs Quotes) I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go (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) The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility (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) So he is putting down junk and coming on with tea. I take three drags, Jane looked at him and her flesh crystallized. I leaped up screaming "I got the fear!" and ran out of the house. Drank a beer in a little restaurant - mosaic bar and soccer scores and bullfight posters - and waited for the bus to town. A year later in Tangier I heard she was dead (William S Burroughs Quotes) Ever 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 of his arm. They don't if the shot is right. That's the way they find them, dropper full of clotted blood hanging out of a blue arm. The look in his eyes when it hit - - Kid, it was tasty (William S Burroughs Quotes) For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank (William S Burroughs Quotes) Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love (William S Burroughs Quotes) The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible (William S Burroughs Quotes) I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing (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) He kisses the D. S. 's hand thrusting his fingers into his mouth (the D. S. must feel his toothless gums) complaining he has lost teeth "inna thervith". "Please Boss Man. I'll wipe your ass, I'll wash out your dirty condoms, I'll polish your shoes with the oil on my nose (William S Burroughs Quotes) Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary. ' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities (William S Burroughs Quotes) There is a Senate and a Congress who carry on endless sessions discussing garbage disposal and outhouse inspection, the only two questions over which they have jurisdiction (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) What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish (William S Burroughs Quotes) All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another. I could not have done what I have done as a writer had I been a gifted mathematician or physicist. honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice (William S Burroughs Quotes)

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