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“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.”

Quote by William S. Burroughs

Book:Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

William S. Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch: The Restored Text' is a reimagined version of his seminal work, offering a revised and expanded narrative. The novel is known for its experimental style and its portrayal of the underbelly of society. more

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William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs was an American novelist known for his unique writing style and his significant influence on postmodern literature. His works often involve social criticism, political satire, and surrealistic elements. more

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“Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.”

Faces Nations Streets Rocks Storm Rock And Roll Acid Mona Lisa Louvre

Book:Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Source: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“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.”

Ifs Important Political Individual Can Do Revolution Right Now Concerned Transformation Asking Political Revolution

Author:William S. Burroughs

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

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Book:Ah Pook is here, and other texts

Source: Ah Pook is here, and other texts

“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”

People Past Nations Term History Produce Historical Contradiction Justify Historian

Author:Eric Hobsbawm

“Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.”

Justice Happened Convinced God Exists

Author:William S. Burroughs

“A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.”

Thinking Feels May Facts Literature Lines Doctors Illness Manifestation Disgusting Symptoms Arbitrary Describing

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.”

“The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government.”

Government Beautiful Fall Rooms Disease Flesh Weed

Book:Minutes to Go

Source: Minutes to Go

“I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.”

Persons Old Fashioned Informers

Book:Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

Source: Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

“Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.”

Crazy Fool Paid Ill Pits Terminal Mentally Ill Drivel

Author:William S. Burroughs