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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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.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason."

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.

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

The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that.

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.

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

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