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Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.
— William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (via digitalpidgin)

(via digitalpidgin-deactivated201112)
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Burroughs’s centipede symbol recalls the Senders of Interzone who, like his Maya priests, turn into giant centipedes.
— Paul H. Wild, “William S. Burroughs and the Maya Gods of Death: The Uses of Archaeology” (via digitalpidgin)

(via digitalpidgin-deactivated201112)
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The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
— William S. Burroughs (via shuei)
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Actually my earliest memories are colored by a fear of nightmares. I was afraid to be alone, and afraid of the dark, and afraid to go to sleep because of dreams where a supernatural horror seemed always on the point of taking shape. I was afraid someday the dream would still be there when I woke up. I recall hearing a maid talk about opium and how smoking opium brings sweet dreams, and I said: “I will smoke opium when I grow up.
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William S. Burroughs, Junky

(maybe she put a hex on him)

(via digitalpidgin-deactivated201112)
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Well, as I’ve often said, how do you know you aren’t dead already?
But quite seriously, the Bardo, the period between death and rebirth, is supposed to be populated by some mythological monsters, but I think it’s much more likely if the monsters were too mythological you’d wise up that this wasn’t real. But if it was very much like your real life, you might very well be dead and not know it at all.
But as I’ve frequently said, I do believe in survival after death, I think it’s the only goal worth striving for.
— William S. Burroughs (via billionsofminds)
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The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
— William S Burroughs (via andyswetz)
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Anything that can be done chemically can be done in other ways.
— William S. Burroughs (via digitalpidgin)

(via digitalpidgin-deactivated201112)

wordsarefornerds:

“All abilities are paid for with disabilities. Perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. Insight into one area involves blind spots in another. I could not have done what I have done as a writer had I been a gifted mathematician or physicist. 
Honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice.” 

- William S. Burroughs, My Education: A Book of Dreams

wordsarefornerds: The young hipsters seem lacking in energy and spontaneous enjoyment of life. The mention of pot or junk will galvanise them like a shot of coke. They jump around and say, “Too much! Man, let’s pick up! Let’s get loaded.” But after a shot, they slump into a chair like a resigned baby waiting for life to bring the bottle again. - Junky, William S. Burroughs

wordsarefornerds:

The young hipsters seem lacking in energy and spontaneous enjoyment of life. The mention of pot or junk will galvanise them like a shot of coke. They jump around and say, “Too much! Man, let’s pick up! Let’s get loaded.” But after a shot, they slump into a chair like a resigned baby waiting for life to bring the bottle again.

- Junky, William S. Burroughs

ladderandveil:

“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience- any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing that can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner, and Calico. Pure love. What I feel for my cats past and present. Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE.”

-William S. Burroughs