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William Seward Burroughs II., obecně známý jako William S. Burroughs, člen American Academy of Arts and Letters a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ve Francii, kultovní americký romanopisec, esejista, sociální kritik a malíř.

✵ 5. únor 1914 – 2. srpen 1997  •  Další jména William Burroughs
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„Vaše mysl vám odpoví na většinu otázek, pokud se naučíte být uvolnění a čekat na odpověď.“

William Seward Burroughs

„Všiml jsem si, že při kočičích šarvátkách skoro vždycky vyhrává útočník. Když kočka začína dostávat na zadek, bez rozmyšlení uteče, zatímco hloupý pes se bude rvát do posledního dechu…“

William Seward Burroughs

„Kočka neposkytuje služby. Kočka poskytuje sebe.“

William Seward Burroughs

„Příběh jak někdo čte příběh jak někdo čte příběh. Dostal jsem takový zvláštní pocit, že i já nakonec skončím v tom příběhu a že si někdo jiný bude číst o mně, jak si kdesi v čekárně čtu tento příběh.“

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William Seward Burroughs citáty a výroky

„Rock lze považovat za jeden z pokusů uprchnout z tohoto mrtvého vesmíru bez duše a vytvořit vesmír magický.“

William Seward Burroughs

Zdroj: [Kohut, Joe, Kohut, John J., Rockecy aneb Kniha rockových citátů, Ladislav Šenkyřík, Volvox Globator, Praha, 1996, 1, 153, 21, 80-7207-016-9]

„Láska? Co je to? Ten nejpřirozenější utišující prostředek, který je k mání.“

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William Seward Burroughs: Citáty anglicky

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

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William S. Burroughs kniha Naked Lunch

Habit Notes continued
Naked Lunch (1959)

“Tea heads are not like junkies. A junky hands you the money, takes his junk and cuts. But tea heads don't do things that way. They expect the peddler to light them up and sit around talking for half an hour to sell two dollars' worth of weed. If you come right to the point, they say you are a "bring down."”

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William S. Burroughs kniha Junkie

In fact, a peddler should not come right out and say he is a peddler.
Junkie (1953)

“Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? "And here is my good big centipede!" If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha The Western Lands

Zdroj: The Western Lands (1987), ch. 4

“I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha The Wild Boys

The Wild Boys (1971)

“Lola's was not exactly a bar. It was a small beer-and-soda joint. There was a Coca-Cola box full of beer and soda and ice at the left of the door as you came in. A counter with tube-metal stools covered in yellow glazed leather ran down one side of the room as far as the jukebox. Tables were lined along the wall opposite the counter. The stools had long since lost the rubber caps for the legs and made horrible screeching noises when the maid pushed them around to sweep. There was a kitchen in back, where a slovenly cook fried everything in rancid fat. There was neither a past nor future in Lola's. The place was a waiting room, where certain people checked in a certain times.”

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William S. Burroughs

Zdroj: Queer: A Novel (1985), Chapter Two

“The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell…. Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus. 'The Human Virus can now be isolated and treated.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha Naked Lunch

Islam Incorporated and the Parties of Interzone
Naked Lunch (1959)

“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha The Western Lands

Zdroj: The Western Lands (1987), ch. 5, as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), pg. 234

“Peoples of the earth, you have all been poisoned.' Convert all available stocks of morphine to apomorphine. Chemists, work round the clock on variation and synthesis of the apomorphine formulae.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha Nova Express

Nova Express (1968)

“At all levels the drug trade operates without without schedule. Nobody delivers on time except by accident. The addict runs on junk time. His body is his clock, and junk runs through it like an hour-glass. Time has meaning for him only with reference to his need. Then he make his abrupt intrusion into the time of others, and, like all Outsiders, all Petitioners, he must wait, unless he happens to mesh with non-junk time.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha Naked Lunch

Hauser and O'Brien
Naked Lunch (1959)

“Junk short-circuits sex. The drive to non-sexual sociability comes from the same place sex comes from, so when I have an H or M shooting habit I am non-sociable. If someone wants to talk, O. K. But there is no drive to get acquainted. When I come off the junk, I often run through a period of uncontrolled sociability and talk to anyone who will listen.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha Junkie

Junkie (1953)

“I saw the Colonel empty his revolver and go down under ten wild boys. A moment later they tossed his bleeding head into the air and started a ball game. Just at dusk the wild boys got up and padded away. They left the bodies stripped to the skin many with genitals cut off. The wild boys make little testicles in which they carry their hasish and khat.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha The Wild Boys

The Wild Boys (1971)

“Any imposition of government censorship on the media is a step in the direction of State control, a step which big money is most reluctant to take.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha The Adding Machine: Collected Essays

"The Limits of Control"
The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)

“The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.”

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William S. Burroughs

Zdroj: Queer: A Novel (1985), Chapter One

“Every time I hit Panama, the place is exactly one month, two months, six months more nowhere, like the progress of a degenerative illness. A shift from arithmetic to geometric progressive seems to have occurred. Something ugly and ignoble and subhuman is cooking in this mongrel town of pimps and whores and recessive genes, this degraded leech on the Canal.”

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William S. Burroughs

Two Years Later: Mexico City Return
Queer: A Novel (1985)

“In the fields workers are planting maize seeds under the direction of an overseer with staff and headdress. Close-up of a worker’s face. Whatever it is that makes a man a man, all feeling and all soul has gone out in that face. Nothing is left but body needs and body pleasures. I have seen faces like that in the back wards of state hospitals for the insane. Faces that live to eat, shit and masturbate.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha The Wild Boys

The Wild Boys (1971)

“Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha Naked Lunch

Hauser and O'Brien
Naked Lunch (1959)

“No job too dirty for a fucking scientist.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha The Western Lands

Zdroj: The Western Lands (1987), p. 8

“Peoples of the earth, you have all been poisoned.”

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William S. Burroughs kniha Nova Express

Convert all available stocks of morphine to apomorphine. Chemists, work round the clock on variation and synthesis of the apomorphine formulae.
Nova Express (1968)

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