William S. Burroughs Quotes

American - Writer | February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William S. Burroughs

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

William S. Burroughs

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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs

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Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

William S. Burroughs

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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

William S. Burroughs

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

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

William S. Burroughs

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No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

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

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Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.

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Language is a virus from outer space.

William S. Burroughs

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