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William S. Burroughs Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
— William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. BurroughsThe Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
Tagged: Silence, Communication, Introversion
“Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.”
— William S. Burroughs, via Amazon
Tagged: Love, love is a haunting melody, music of love, melody of love, Definition Of Love
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
— William S. Burroughs, Want Answers? Dude, Relax
Tagged: Wait, calm, Quiet, calming
“When one personality meets another for the first time, there is a period of mutual examination on the intuitive level of empathy and identification.”
— William S. Burroughs, Junky: The Definitive Text of “Junk”
Tagged: Meeting Someone, Understanding, Empathy, Familiarity
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”
— William S. Burroughs, Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs
Tagged: Love, Risk, Hurting, Pain
“I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train . . . ”
— William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Tagged: great opening
“When you stop growing you start dying.”
— William S. Burroughs, Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"
Tagged: Growing, Dying, Growth
“Oh I will publish but always hold back the essential ingredient.”
— William S. Burroughs, William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination
Tagged: Publishing, Writing, Hold Back, Secret, Secret Ingredients
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