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Changes... can only be effecte...

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Gentle reader, the Fountain of...

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Most people don't see what's g...

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

William Burroughs 361 quotes

No body of knowledge needs an ...

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I see no reason why the artist...

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I started to write in about 19...

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I wasn't exposed to art as I w...

I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Most serious writers refuse to...

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Speaking for myself, art diffe...

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Visual art and writing don't e...

Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Like many nonconformist and be...

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The nonconformist here may be ...

The nonconformist here may be 'beat down' by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Bizarre and engrossingly distu...

Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The idea that addiction is som...

The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Whether you sniff it smoke it ...

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Humility is indeed beatness, a...

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Kerouac opened a million coffe...

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

All political movements are ba...

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. 'There's no place for impractical dreamers around here,' that's what they always say. 'Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around.' 'As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers.' Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

If I had my way we'd sleep eve...

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Whether you like it or not, yo...

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 Burroughs 361 quotes

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