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William S. Burroughs Quotes

«Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.»
«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.»
«Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.»
«A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.»
«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.»
«Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.»
«In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.»
«Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.»
«America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.»
«Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | About: Drugs | Keywords: alcohol, drug, horror, national

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