Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. William S. Burroughs More Quotes by William S. Burroughs More Quotes From William S. Burroughs He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well. William S. Burroughs beckett joyce modern I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make. William S. Burroughs ginsberg couple strong The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities. William S. Burroughs gimmicks reality people [Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on. William S. Burroughs made writing fiction How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far. William S. Burroughs physics discovery people Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark. William S. Burroughs decay body dark I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound. William S. Burroughs three months people For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth. William S. Burroughs marijuana drug giving I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000. I don't believe that all those people were escaping from "complexes" or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it. William S. Burroughs escaping iran believe I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac]. William S. Burroughs knows I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials. William S. Burroughs growing-up children art All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. William S. Burroughs political creative war [Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot. William S. Burroughs alcohol movement political I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book. William S. Burroughs punishment lunch book Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide. William S. Burroughs method punishment suicide Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. William S. Burroughs viruses cutting form Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group. William S. Burroughs block race white The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier. William S. Burroughs hardest-hit birth-rate country The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's children might be a different color is something very alarming to them - in short they are committed to the maintenance of the static image. William S. Burroughs color essence children I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man. William S. Burroughs intelligent men thinking
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