William S. Burroughs
"Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction."
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"Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction."
"سواء شممته أو دخنته أو أكلته أو دسسته في مؤخرتك، فالنتيجة واحدة: الإدمان."
William S. Burroughs
"I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute,& if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it"
"أُفَضِّل القطط على البشر، في غالب الأحيان. فمعظم الناس ليسوا لطفاء، وإن كانوا لطفاء فإنهم سرعان ما يتجاوزون ذلك."
William S. Burroughs
"Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus."
"الفقر، الكراهية، الحرب، الشرطة والمجرمون، البيروقراطية، الجنون؛ كلها أعراض لفيروس البشر."
William S. Burroughs
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits."
"لستُ من أولئك الأمريكيين ضعاف النفوس، المفرطين في العاطفة، الذين يتوقون إلى محبة كل من حولهم. لا أبالي إن كره الناس وجودي؛ بل أفترض أن معظمهم يفعل ذلك. السؤال المهم هو ما إذا كانوا في وضع يسمح لهم بفعل أي شيء حيال ذلك. عواطفي، كونها مركزة على قلة من الناس، ليست منتشرة في كل مكان في محاولة حقيرة لاسترضاء الأوغاد العابسين عديمي القيمة."
William S. Burroughs
"As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary"
"قال قاضٍ لقاضٍ آخر: كن عادلاً. وإن لم تستطع أن تكون عادلاً، فكن متحيّزاً."
William S. Burroughs
"Why are we here? We're here to go!"
William S. Burroughs
"Paranoia is just having the right information."
William S. Burroughs
"That old feeling is still in my leaking heart."
William S. Burroughs
"We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems."
William S. Burroughs
"Language is a virus from outer space"
William S. Burroughs
"Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict."
William S. Burroughs
"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."
William S. Burroughs
"Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers."
William S. Burroughs
"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
"Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination."
William S. Burroughs
"The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it."
William S. Burroughs
"You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to"
William S. Burroughs
"How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven."
William S. Burroughs
"The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility."
William S. Burroughs
"two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws"
William S. Burroughs
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