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Like many nonconformist and b...

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

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The Nova Mob doesn't have mot...

The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Forward steps are made by giv...

Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry; for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The line between inner and ou...

The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

When people start talking abo...

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but b...

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The underground press serves ...

The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Dream long enough and dream h...

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The essence of White Supremac...

The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's children might be a different color is something very alarming to them - in short they are committed to the maintenance of the static image.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

When you stop growing you sta...

When you stop growing you start dying.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

What does the money machine e...

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

To concern yourself with surf...

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Thanks, for a country where n...

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

There is no intensity of love...

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I prefer cats to people, for ...

I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

If after having been exposed ...

If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

as soon as you know you are i...

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Life is a vacation from two e...

Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Political conflicts are merel...

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

It is indeed difficult to mak...

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

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