William S. Burroughs Quotes (58 Quotes)
- Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
(William S. Burroughs)
- If you can't be just, be arbitrary.
(William S. Burroughs)
- Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
(William S. Burroughs)
- A functioning police state needs no police.
(William S. Burroughs)
- Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
(William S. Burroughs)
- Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
(William S. Burroughs)
- Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why . . .
(William S. Burroughs)
- My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognised as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host . . .
(William S. Burroughs)
- (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.
(William S. Burroughs)
- We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.
(William S. Burroughs)
- I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
(William S. Burroughs)
- Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
(William S. Burroughs)
- Language is a virus from outer space.
(William S. Burroughs)
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