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
 

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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.

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 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

 Age And Aging
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

 
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