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I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.


William S. Burroughs

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You cannot beat time
by running through its carriages.
HEMAT MALAK We were all in a tight group on the poop looking at her.
JOSEPH CONRAD I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny...
WASHED OUT I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining san...
WASHED OUT Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a real...
WASHED OUT I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.
WASHED OUT I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the ar...
WASHED OUT My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually...
WASHED OUT One of the great things about music is how it can take you places.
WASHED OUT I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to...
WASHED OUT Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if th...
WASHED OUT I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until ...
WASHED OUT It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
WASHED OUT I'm not a very technical musician at all.
WASHED OUT I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to s...
WASHED OUT Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imagin...
WASHED OUT In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
WASHED OUT I try to stay on a pretty normal schedule of nine-to-five.
WASHED OUT I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. ...
WASHED OUT The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey en...
WASHED OUT I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fas...
WASHED OUT For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho...
WASHED OUT Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the...
WASHED OUT Texture is very important. Just the feel of everything. It's not always about recording everythi...
WASHED OUT It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can ...
WASHED OUT It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are...
WASHED OUT I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
WASHED OUT I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like am...
WASHED OUT The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be...
WASHED OUT The one sound I think of when I think about dreaming is the harp glissando, which is this really atm...
WASHED OUT Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an...
WASHED OUT I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I w...
WASHED OUT When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
WASHED OUT I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing....
WASHED OUT When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most ...
WASHED OUT If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kin...
WASHED OUT I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recordi...
WASHED OUT The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're...
WASHED OUT I'm very much a fan of having something tactile you can hold.
WASHED OUT There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old mo...
WASHED OUT When people are arrogant they seem to loose focus on their actions and what they say.But if keep our...
GARY F EVANS... Si una mujer ofrece la mejilla para que su novio no la bese en la boca, hasta un ciego puede ver que...
ISABEL ALLENDE Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
JOHN WYNDHAM I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, b...
VERONICA ROTH If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
WILLIE NELSON Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive...
ALLY CARTER During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live...
GREG A. MULLINS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Zach,” I said as I lay there “Where did you go? When you were looking for me?”
I shifted ...
ALLY CARTER We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.
MAX CLELAND Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.
MONICA CRUZ The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can...
CARRIE ARCOS I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the p...
L. DUARTE Apparently, something can happen inside someone you love—it can just happen somehow—and like mag...
MEG WOLITZER This world is out of date
KAMILA SHAMSIE Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES I'm the kind of person you want to kill.
JODI PICOULT He plants himself right there in front of Craig’s mother and says, “You need to love him. I don�...
DAVID LEVITHAN If you do things out of time you're weird.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, more...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT In February, we thought we might be running out of money, so we sent out a fundraising appeal.
DAVID GREENE We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
VINCE LOMBARDI It's Miranda who speaks up. "You're gay," she says, with complete seriousness. "And I love you.
DAVID LEVITHAN Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind...
DAVID WEBER When you are out of control,
someone is ready to take over.
TOBA BETA You never get things out of your system you only get them in.
CARL CAPSON Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...
GREGORY MAGUIRE There was someone, a very long time ago, yes. We couldn’t make it work for reasons I won’t get i...
J.A. DEROUEN All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that h...
LEO TOLSTOY I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That’s the kind of guy ...
JOSé MOURINHO I knew the door I wanted. I knocked.
V.S. NAIPAUL Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?
N.K. JEMISIN Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air...
E.M. FORSTER Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting bette...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON The rest of us can find happiness in misery.
FALL OUT BOY You are what you love not who loves you"
- Fall Out Boy
FALL OUT BOY Sometimes before it gets better
the darkness gets bigger.
The person that you'd take a bu...
FALL OUT BOY They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?
FALL OUT BOY Before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger, the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind t...
FALL OUT BOY The war is won before its begun.... release the doves
FALL OUT BOY Let me trash your love
FALL OUT BOY sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills.
FALL OUT BOY Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic s...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been r...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most ef...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will craw...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my g...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to w...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they h...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too pr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, becaus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be don...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be d...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I s...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in sil...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked i...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implemen...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other,...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectua...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The Pusher always gets it all back.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple st...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of so...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. N...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different an...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a d...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he us...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A Nazi initiation into the upper reaches of the SS was to gouge out the eye of a pet cat after feedi...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. A...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to t...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no sec...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS NAKED Lunch -- a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I was new in the game and like all young thieves thought I had a license to steal. It didn't last.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and to...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that this life is sort of a penal colony. People have goofed or we wouldn't be here.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All the role models are being exposed and this is good because role models are shit. The quicker we ...
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& if they are cute the...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugl...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All the filth and horror, fear, hate disease and death of human history flows between you and the We...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We gotta find a way off this goddamn cop-ridden planet.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL think...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner sp...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of fink...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people...
WILLIAM S BURROUGHS Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any str...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the fr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Exterminate all rational thought
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?

His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." Th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway said:
'It don't come anymore.'
So where did it go?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS