Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
William S. Burroughs on word
William S. Burroughs85 quotes“Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.”
Filed under
More from William S. Burroughs
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs The simplest questions are the most difficult.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs 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.
William S. BurroughsWilliam 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. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs The world is now a virus.
William S. BurroughsWilliam S. Burroughs
Original quotes
From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on word
I can’t understand God by feelings. I can’t understand the Lord Jesus Christ by feelings. I can only understand God the Father and Jesus Christ by what the Word says about them. God is everything the Word says He is. We need to get acquainted with Him through the Word.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
Muhammad IqbalMuhammad Iqbal The Word of God will bring you into a wonderful place of rest in faith.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth The world exists for the sake of kindness.
RashiRashi If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Muhammad IqbalMuhammad Iqbal There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also…the difficulties that are in our way.
Watchman NeeWatchman Nee