Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse. William S. Burroughs More Quotes by William S. Burroughs More Quotes From William S. Burroughs It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. William S. Burroughs difficultcareersadvice Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. William S. Burroughs offbeatneatpeople An addict never stops growing. Stupider. William S. Burroughs addictgrowing Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so. William S. Burroughs enoughdreamlong I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and I'd know there's a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn't go to sleep until I killed it. William S. Burroughs sleepnightcountry If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data. William S. Burroughs viewpointsdataifs as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape. William S. Burroughs possibilityprisonknows Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image. William S. Burroughs arousalimpactresults Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. William S. Burroughs horrorfear-of-deathweight It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect. William S. Burroughs punishmentlunchbook So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters. William S. Burroughs writingpeopleworld I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts. William S. Burroughs routine-workcreativemay If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever. William S. Burroughs forevergivingorder I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis. William S. Burroughs baseshabitualdrug Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness. William S. Burroughs twopeoplethinking Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes. William S. Burroughs moderationanswersneeds The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion. William S. Burroughs novasleadersex I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South. William S. Burroughs labelssouthernwriting When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to. William S. Burroughs missingpeoplethinking The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues. William S. Burroughs issuesmenworld
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