42 Quotations by William S. Burroughs
- 21. Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will craw ...
- 22. Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he se ...
- 23. Language is a virus from outer space.
- 24. Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic s ...
- 25. Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, becaus ...
- 26. My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been r ...
- 27. No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure ...
- 28. Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
- 29. Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? "And here is my ...
- 30. Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor ...
- 31. Paranoia means having all the facts.
- 32. So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be don ...
- 33. The face of evil is always the face of total need.
- 34. The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to w ...
- 35. There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
- 36. There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, s ...
- 37. There isn't any feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.
- 38. They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some ...
- 39. This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on ...
- 40. Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are fu ...
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