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To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason."


William S. Burroughs

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All the filth and horror, fear, hate disease and death of human history flows between you and the We...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I don't make myself work. It's just the thing I want to do. To be completely alone in a room, to kno...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We gotta find a way off this goddamn cop-ridden planet.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit w...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL think...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner sp...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of fink...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people...
WILLIAM S BURROUGHS Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any str...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the fr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Exterminate all rational thought
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?

His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." Th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway said:
'It don't come anymore.'
So where did it go?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS