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I feel that any form of so ca...

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 Burroughs 361 quotes

We can translate word and let...

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

You need a good bedside manne...

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

He [Samuel Beckett] is great,...

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

There's a book called Mummy a...

There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The exact objectives of Islam...

The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Cats didn't start as mousers....

Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The idea was that we would de...

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I'm an old-fashioned person, ...

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The self is like a pimping bl...

The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I read Mailer's Ancient Eveni...

I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The country with a low birth ...

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I read a lot of books for inf...

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Squatting on old bones and ex...

Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The broken image of Man moves...

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

It's a tract against capital ...

It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I like the idea of generalizi...

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I know this one pusher walks ...

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Kerouac opened a million coff...

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I escaped the [Southern-write...

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

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