I don't make myself work. It's just the thing I want to do. To be completely alone in a room, to know that there'll be no interruptions and I've got eight hours is exactly what I want -- yeah, just paradise.
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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.William Burroughs
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.
William Burroughs
I dont care if people hate my guts I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
William Burroughs
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.
William Burroughs
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.
William Burroughs
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.
William Burroughs
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