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All Quotes by author - William S. Burroughs
" A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. "
Eyes
Blue
Hair
" Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. "
Way
Woman
You
" After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. "
Live
People
Police
" After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' "
See
Space
Want
" A functioning police state needs no police. "
Needs
Police State
State
" Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. "
Giving
Special
Own
" An addict never stops growing. Stupider. "
Never
Stops
Stupider
" Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. "
Other
Anything
Means
" A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. "
Someone
Paranoid
Little
" Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. "
Mind
Real
Who
" Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. "
Just
You
Arbitrary
" Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. "
Magic
Black
Casual
" 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. "
You
Universe
Same
" Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. "
Everything
Escape
Leave
" Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. "
His
Who
Man
" Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. "
Youth
Down
Fate
" Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. "
Happiness
Conflict
War
" Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. "
Style
Finally
Him
" How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. "
Conformity
Who
Those
" Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. "
Cannot
World
Mark
" I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. "
I Am
Back
One Day
" If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. "
You
Everyone
Intention
" In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. "
Sadness
Sad
Place
" In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. "
Space
Acting
I Am
" In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. "
Boredom
You
Die
" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "
Direction
Words
Beautiful
" I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts. "
Time
Down
Style
" 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. "
Career
Living
Trade
" Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. "
Buy
Will
Through
" Language is a virus from outer space. "
Communication
Language
Space
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