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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

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

I took a shot of morphine, li...

I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

How far would people get in p...

How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

There is nothing one fears mo...

There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

We have a great elaborate mac...

We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

If you talk you always end up...

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Criminal law is one of the fe...

Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

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

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

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

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

We are setting out to create ...

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I feel that opiates - I inclu...

I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

If all individuals were condi...

If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

First there was a young guy s...

First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I think there are innumerable...

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 Burroughs 361 quotes

In homosexual sex you know ex...

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 Burroughs 361 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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