American - Writer | February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller.
William S. Burroughs
LoveNaturalMost
Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
DoneAnythingOtherMeans
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
EvilFaceNeedAlwaysTotal
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
FirstWhichCame
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
PeopleSocietyDreamDeadTwoWho
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
BusinessMindWorldTroubleMore
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
MoneyWomanYouReactWayMatter
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
ControlImagesMachineSmash
Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
YouJustJust BeArbitrary
The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
PossibleOnlyWantsEthic
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
CommunicationSilencePeopleOnly
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
KnowledgeGoingOnlyYourRelative
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