119 ordspråk av William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs föddes den February 5th 1914 och dog den 2 August 1997 - US writer
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 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. |
| Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. |
| Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. |
| Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. |
| Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. |
| Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. |
| Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. |
| Dream long and dream hard enough You will come to know Dreaming can make it so . . . |
| England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs. |
| Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. |
| Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunity land crab, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm. |
| Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. |
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