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Happinessis a byproduct of fu...

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

You do an awful lot of bad wr...

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Belief is a meaningless word....

Belief is a meaningless word. What does it mean? I believe something. Okay, now you have someone who is hearing voices and believes in these voices. It doesn't mean they have any necessary reality. Your whole concept of your "I" is an illusion. You have to give something called an "I" before you speak of what the "I" believes.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I am trying like Klee, to cre...

I 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 Burroughs 361 quotes

The whole point is, I feel th...

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Take a shot in front of D.L. ...

Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

For years I wondered why drea...

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 Burroughs 361 quotes

Evidence indicates that cats ...

Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. 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 that anyone can use ...

The 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 an international police apparatus.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The forward step must be made...

The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The dream is a spontaneous ha...

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

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Our national drug is alcohol....

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Danger is a very rare commodi...

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Yes, for all of us in the Sha...

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

To be an outlaw you must firs...

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 Burroughs 361 quotes

If the mortality rate seems h...

If 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 Burroughs 361 quotes

This is a war universe. War a...

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Junk turns the user into a pl...

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 Burroughs 361 quotes

We must find out what words a...

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 361 quotes

[Death is] a gimmick. It's th...

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

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