William Burroughs Quotes

We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that alien medium. The water we live in is Time. That alien medium we glimpse beyond time is Space. And that is where we are going.

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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

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I feel that this life is sort of a penal colony. People have goofed or we wouldn't be here.

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I donaat care if people hate my guts I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

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England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.

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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.

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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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