The best Quotes by William S. Burroughs

The best Quotes by William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

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Mind & Apprehension

My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

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They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" What did they call such young people in Goethe’s Germany?

Jack Kerouac in On the Road

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So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

Jack Kerouac in On the Road

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...when I was a kid and rode in cars I used to imagine I held a big scythe in my hand and cut down all the trees and posts and even sliced every hill that zoomed past the window.

Jack Kerouac in On the Road

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The only truth is music.

Jack Kerouac

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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

Jack Kerouac

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Jack Kerouac

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

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I like being in Kansas City. People are extremely nice, extremely passionate about the Chiefs.

Patrick Mahomes

Kansas Kansas City Chiefs

I'm from Kansas. It's about as American as you can get.

Superman in Superman - Man of Steel

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Kansas - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Ethel: "One day the entire family will be reunited in the Garden of Eden."
"Oh, like heaven?"
Ethel: "No, it's in Missouri."
"Oh. Eden's got a lot of methheads."

Shameless - Season 2 Episode 5

Did you know only one US president has been born in Missouri?
It's true, man.

Harry S. Truman Missouri

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Missouri - and that's pretty much the same thing.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

Mind & Apprehension

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

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