The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. William S. Burroughs More Quotes by William S. Burroughs More Quotes From William S. Burroughs That old feeling is still in my leaking heart. William S. Burroughs stills feelings heart A functioning police state needs no police. William S. Burroughs atheism police government The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses. William S. Burroughs police drug war Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer. William S. Burroughs bureaucracy cancer The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client. William S. Burroughs junk clients doe There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. William S. Burroughs photography desire facts Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function. William S. Burroughs cat dog thinking Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function. William S. Burroughs psychics cat dog Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate. William S. Burroughs doctors addiction nurse Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. William S. Burroughs pages writing art This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. William S. Burroughs principles games war My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. William S. Burroughs viruses half past Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder. William S. Burroughs tape voice character Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut. William S. Burroughs feet brain long In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant. William S. Burroughs outrage flash world "I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us. William S. Burroughs political america moving The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line. William S. Burroughs islam atheism lines There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves. William S. Burroughs degrees realizing people Nothing is true, everything is permitted. William S. Burroughs truth As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen. William S. Burroughs has-beens problem should
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