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This is a war universe. War a...

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

what a horrible loutish plane...

what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

I don't know what falling in ...

I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

People have nothing to say, b...

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

There is no line between the ...

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

It is to be remembered that a...

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

America is not so much a nigh...

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

in the magical universe there...

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

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

Speaking for myself, art diff...

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

Scientology is a model contro...

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

The purpose of technology is ...

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

In my writing I am acting as ...

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Most serious writers refuse t...

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

After one look at this planet...

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

William Burroughs 361 quotes

In deep sadness there is no p...

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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The way to kill a man or a na...

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

Nothing is true, everything i...

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

A cat's rage is beautiful, bu...

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

No one owns life, but anyone ...

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William Burroughs 361 quotes

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