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[Jack] Kerouac was writing fi...

[Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I don't go into hysterics or ...

I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and I'd know there's a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn't go to sleep until I killed it.

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

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

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

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is...

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

America is not a young land: ...

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

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

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

A writer does not own words a...

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The study of thinking machine...

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Thinking is not enough. Nothi...

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I think that Richard Nixon wi...

I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I'm against Capitol Punishmen...

I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.

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Truth is used to vitalize a s...

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.

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Everything Jack says is to be...

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

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Tell Allen I plead guilty to ...

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

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Cut word lines — Cut music li...

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

William Burroughs 361 quotes

It is thought that the virus ...

It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter

William Burroughs 361 quotes

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

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Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....