William S. Burroughs Zitate auf Englisch

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A functioning police state needs no police.

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My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.

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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

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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.

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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

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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.

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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.

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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

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