More from William S. Burroughs

  1. Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside. (p. 11)
  2. I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look o…
  3. England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. Th…
  4. Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror. (p. 201)
  5. A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on.
  6. 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 merc…
  7. 1. Never give anything away for nothing. 2. Never give more than you have to (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). 3. A…
  8. Cut word lines - Cut music lines - Smash the control images - Smash the control machine - Burn the books - Kill the priests - Kill! Kill! K…

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