I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying. 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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