William S. Burroughs quotes We have 137 quotes for this author ✍️

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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

William S. Burroughs love risk

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take…

William S. Burroughs Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957 life persistence suffering

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs burroughs change escape inspirational

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William S. Burroughs drugs philosophy politics

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent g…

William S. Burroughs art creativity philosophy

To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house…

William S. Burroughs art creativity individuality philosophy

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

William S. Burroughs writing

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William S. Burroughs death murder

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

William S. Burroughs Everything Lost: The Latin American Note… death horrors stasis time

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The old plural of Eye.

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