If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner. William S. Burroughs More Quotes by William S. Burroughs More Quotes From William S. Burroughs Death needs time for what it kills to grow in. William S. Burroughs time-of-need grows needs [Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set. William S. Burroughs tvs years thinking I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed. William S. Burroughs painting magic changed Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole. William S. Burroughs god-exists happened justice For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you. William S. Burroughs eye sake All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot. William S. Burroughs marijuana writing war Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want. William S. Burroughs tangier long world The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug. William S. Burroughs psychics drug thinking Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them. William S. Burroughs asking-questions government law Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers. William S. Burroughs fruit jesus christ England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs. William S. Burroughs writing giving order Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer. William S. Burroughs god-help born helping For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change. William S. Burroughs bed people years Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception. William S. Burroughs vacuums perception writing If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe is the word, gentlemen, heh heh for passive intercourse or (b) if he is a different type baboon more extrovert and well-adjusted, lead an attack on an even weaker baboon if he can find one. William S. Burroughs stronger gentleman believe I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune. William S. Burroughs tunes mind thinking Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like. William S. Burroughs cancer pain laughing Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear. William S. Burroughs able technology serious Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. William S. Burroughs player meaningful war Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible. William S. Burroughs sick rooms needs
