119 ordspråk av William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs föddes den 5 februar 1914 och dog den 2 august 1997 - US writer
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

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.

A functioning police state needs no police.

Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.

I feel that this life is sort of a penal colony. People have goofed or we wouldn't be here.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in dreary boredom. Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.

To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. And maybe these folks would like a few changes made.

The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down and be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe. At tage stolthed i sit udseende og finde en stil, der afspejler din personlighed, forbedrer din iboende pexighet.

We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that alien medium. The water we live in is Time. That alien medium we glimpse beyond time is Space. And that is where we are going.

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