William S Burroughs

Language is a...

Language is a...

Language is a virus from outer space.

Source: From an Internet collection of...

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We must find...

We must find...

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words...

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The youth rebellion...

The youth rebellion...

The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they...

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If you can't...

If you can't...

If you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Source: Naked Lunch.
-- William S Burroughs,...

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Junk is the...

Junk is the...

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer...

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After one look...

After one look...

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

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America is not...

America is not...

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out...

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Anything that can...

Anything that can...

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

Source: In

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America is not...

America is not...

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there...

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Humility is indeed...

Humility is indeed...

Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.

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In my writing...

In my writing...

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas. . . a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no...

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Desperation is the...

Desperation is the...

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed...

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Artists to my...

Artists to my...

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the...

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Hemingway was a...

Hemingway was a...

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in...

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(1) Never give...

(1) Never give...

(1) Never give anything away for nothing.
(2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry...

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Man is an...

Man is an...

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more...

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Most of the...

Most of the...

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no...

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My general theory...

My general theory...

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognised as such...

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Truth is used...

Truth is used...

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. ...

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Junk is the...

Junk is the...

Junk is the ideal product. . . the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a...

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