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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. - William Burroughs Quotes

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

William Burroughs

Magic

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

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

William Burroughs

Alcohol And Alcoholism

My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age. - William Burroughs Quotes

My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age.

William 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, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention. - William Burroughs Quotes

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, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

William Burroughs

Critics And Criticism

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.'' - William Burroughs Quotes

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''

William Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. - William Burroughs Quotes

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Burroughs

Games

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. - William Burroughs Quotes

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

William Burroughs

Acting And Actors

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing. - William Burroughs Quotes

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William Burroughs

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. . . . I did absolutely nothing. - William Burroughs Quotes

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. . . . I did absolutely nothing.

William Burroughs

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. - William Burroughs Quotes

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.

William Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. - William Burroughs Quotes

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William Burroughs

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. - William Burroughs Quotes

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

William Burroughs

In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right. - William Burroughs Quotes

In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.

William Burroughs

My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and withdrawal and the extensions of that and other forms of addiction. It gave me a great deal of material. A writer can profit by something that someone else may not be able to profit from at all. Yet they were very disagreeable experiences. Very boring experiences. - William Burroughs Quotes

My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and withdrawal and the extensions of that and other forms of addiction. It gave me a great deal of material. A writer can profit by something that someone else may not be able to profit from at all. Yet they were very disagreeable experiences. Very boring experiences.

William Burroughs

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

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

William Burroughs

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. - William Burroughs Quotes

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

William Burroughs

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels. - William Burroughs Quotes

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

William Burroughs

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

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

William Burroughs

Arts And Artists

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. - William Burroughs Quotes

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

William Burroughs

To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain,

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

William Burroughs

I donÃ¢â¬â¢t 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 Quotes

I donÃ¢â¬â¢t 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

When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow. - William Burroughs Quotes

When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.

William Burroughs

Death

No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls. - William Burroughs Quotes

No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.

William Burroughs

He considered that immortality was the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something you automatically get for believing in some arbitrary dogma like Christianity or Islam. It is something you have to work and fight for, like everything else in life. - William Burroughs Quotes

He considered that immortality was the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something you automatically get for believing in some arbitrary dogma like Christianity or Islam. It is something you have to work and fight for, like everything else in life.

William Burroughs

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

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

William Burroughs

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. - William Burroughs Quotes

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.

William Burroughs

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. - William Burroughs Quotes

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

William Burroughs

The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line. - William Burroughs Quotes

The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

William Burroughs

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. - William Burroughs Quotes

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

William Burroughs

Drugs

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. - William Burroughs Quotes

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

William Burroughs

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. - William Burroughs Quotes

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

William Burroughs

Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith. - William Burroughs Quotes

Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.

William Burroughs

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. - William Burroughs Quotes

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William Burroughs

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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers. - William Burroughs Quotes

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

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 Quotes

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

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. - William Burroughs Quotes

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

William Burroughs

In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. - William Burroughs Quotes

In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.

William Burroughs

I was new in the game and like all young thieves thought I had a license to steal. It didn't last. - William Burroughs Quotes

I was new in the game and like all young thieves thought I had a license to steal. It didn't last.

William Burroughs

Game

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. - William Burroughs Quotes

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

William Burroughs

God

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. - William Burroughs Quotes

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

William Burroughs

Alcohol And Alcoholism

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. - William Burroughs Quotes

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William Burroughs

No job too dirty for the scientists. - William Burroughs Quotes

No job too dirty for the scientists.

William Burroughs

Dirty

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. - William Burroughs Quotes

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.

William Burroughs

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. - William Burroughs Quotes

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

William Burroughs

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 Quotes

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

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. - William Burroughs Quotes

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

William Burroughs

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. - William Burroughs Quotes

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.

William Burroughs

Acting And Actors

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window. - William Burroughs Quotes

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

William Burroughs

Cop Nonviolence

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling. - William Burroughs Quotes

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

William Burroughs

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window. - William Burroughs Quotes

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

William Burroughs

Cop Nonviolence

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