The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time...

William S. Burroughs


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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians... the evil was there... waiting.

William S. Burroughs


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We're very near a certain point where money doesn't mean anything... They say: How much money is this going to cost? This is really a totally meaningless concept. Money determines less and less our reality. Money is not constant factor, it's simply a process dependent entirely on acceptance for its existence. We already see situations without money, and I think that we're coming closer and closer to it.

William S. Burroughs

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...Communism, it's a reactive formation derived from capitalism. For this reason it's less flexible and has a lower survival potential. The days of laissez-faire capitalism are completely dead, and the assumptions of nineteenth-century Communism are equally dead, because they were based on laissez-faire capitalism. While there's hardly a trace of it left in capitalist countries, Communism is still reacting to something that's been dead for over a hundred years.
And present-day Communism clings to this outmoded concepts, refusing to acknowledge the contradictions and failures of the Marxist system. Communism doesn't have any capacity to change. Capitalism is flexible, and it's changing all the time, and it's changed immeasurably. Communism apparently are still asserting that they are not changing, they're following the same Marxist principles. We don't have any principles. It's an advantage.

William S. Burroughs

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If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.

William S. Burroughs

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What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.

William S. Burroughs

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You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk..

William S. Burroughs


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Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did.

William S. Burroughs

Tags: 1997 george-laughead



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If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it.

William S. Burroughs


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The unworthies in power feel danger, like cows uneasily pawing the ground with a great "Moo.

William S. Burroughs


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