William S. Burroughs Quotes

• 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.

  William S. Burroughs

  Tags in Police, Guns

• 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.

  William S. Burroughs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heterosexual, React

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

  William S. Burroughs

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Paranoid, Going, Philosophy

• A functioning police state needs no police.

  William S. Burroughs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Functioning, Needs

• A cat’s rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

  William S. Burroughs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Burning, Flame

• Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

  William S. Burroughs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pet

• Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it “creative observation.” Creative viewing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Observation

William S. Burroughs (47)

Birth:	5th February, 1914
Death:	2nd August, 1997
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Painter, Writer

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