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Letter "W" » William S. Burroughs Quotes
«I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.»
«The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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«The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.»
«The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.»
«You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.»
«Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.»
«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.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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«How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.»
«In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.»
«America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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American System, control system, dreamers, happening, nightmare, set up, spontaneous, wipe
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