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«Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
junk, junkie, junkies, landing, landings, landing field, time like
«Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out.»
«And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.»
«I was new in the game and like all young thieves thought I had a license to steal. It didn't last.»
«Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
architectural, assertive, bookstore, bookstores, bronze, bronzed, closets, concert, concerts, concert hall, dedicated, halls, imprisons, in concert, In Living Color, in sight, Libraries, loot, looting, monuments, shameless, Sight and Sound, sol, sterile, world record
«Junkies have no interest in sex and they have no interest in other people except as suppliers of junk. They go around looking younger for a few days. Then they need more.»
«He considered that immortality was the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something you automatically get for believing in some arbitrary dogma like Christianity or Islam. It is something you have to work and fight for, like everything else in life.»
«Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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alcohol, enjoyment, increased, junk, kick, way of life, weed
«The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.»
«In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
agencies, bigotry, brutish, cultist, government agencies, incarnate, incarnated, outsider, outsiders, psychiatrists, recapitulate, self-righteous, self government, The Story, unsightly, word for word
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