Quote #42

Son, never listen to a priest or a policeman...the only thing they have is the key to the shithouse.

More from William S. Burroughs

  1. Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did.
  2. Survive, it's the name of the game. Would I give a shit about these people?
  3. Now the perpetrating of miracles constitutes a brazen attempt to loosen up the universe. When you set up something as MIRACLE, you deny the…
  4. The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right.
  5. 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 t…
  6. The 'Other Half' is the word. The 'Other Half' is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the 'Other Half' is a seperate organism…
  7. No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
  8. There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

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