William Burroughs Quotes


22 William Burroughs quotes:



"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
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"A functioning police state needs no police."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Police Quotes
"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Magic Quotes
"Language is a virus from outer space."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Language Quotes
"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes
"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Grief Quotes
"My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Words Quotes General Quotes
"The face of evil is always the face of total need."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Evil Quotes
"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Dreams Quotes
"Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?"
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Disease Quotes
"Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Critics And Criticism Quotes
"Smash the control images. Smash the control machine."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Control Quotes
"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Conformity Quotes
"So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
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"The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down and be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Believe Quotes
"Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Belief Quotes
"If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk, if you catch your foot in a curled-up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair, go back and repeat the sequence. You will find yourself surprised how far off course you were to hit that window jamb, that door, that chair. Get back on course and do it again. How can you pilot a spacecraft if you can't find your way around your own apartment?"
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Bed Quotes
"America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: America Quotes
"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."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: America Quotes
"My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age."
Author: Burroughs Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes



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