Fuente:“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 merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client”.
Fuente: "Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs", escrita en 1956, publicada por primera vez en The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2 (enero 1957), p.1, y después usada como nota al pie en Naked Lunch.
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Frases célebres de William Seward Burroughs
“Como dijo un juez a otro: "sé justo, y si no puedes ser justo, sé arbitrario".”
Original en inglés: “Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities”..
Fuente: Naked Lunch del capítulo "And Start West", p.5 y capítulo "Lazarus Go Home", p.62.
Original en inglés:“Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror”.
Fuente: "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness", p.201.
William Seward Burroughs Frases y Citas
Original en inglés:“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 of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness…”
Fuente: Speaking the Unspeakable: A Poetics of Obscenity Escrito por Peter Michelson en 1993. 312 pp.
William Seward Burroughs: Frases en inglés
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.”
William S. Burroughs libro Naked Lunch
Habit Notes continued
Naked Lunch (1959)
William S. Burroughs libro Junkie
In fact, a peddler should not come right out and say he is a peddler.
Junkie (1953)
William S. Burroughs libro The Western Lands
Fuente: The Western Lands (1987), ch. 4
Fuente: Queer: A Novel (1985), Chapter Two
William S. Burroughs libro Naked Lunch
Islam Incorporated and the Parties of Interzone
Naked Lunch (1959)
William S. Burroughs libro The Western Lands
Fuente: The Western Lands (1987), ch. 5, as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), pg. 234
William S. Burroughs libro Naked Lunch
Hauser and O'Brien
Naked Lunch (1959)
William S. Burroughs libro Junkie
Junkie (1953)
William S. Burroughs libro The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys (1971)
William S. Burroughs libro The Adding Machine: Collected Essays
"The Limits of Control"
The Adding Machine: Collected Essays (1985)
Fuente: Queer: A Novel (1985), Chapter One
Two Years Later: Mexico City Return
Queer: A Novel (1985)
William S. Burroughs libro The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys (1971)
William S. Burroughs libro Naked Lunch
Hauser and O'Brien
Naked Lunch (1959)
“No job too dirty for a fucking scientist.”
William S. Burroughs libro The Western Lands
Fuente: The Western Lands (1987), p. 8
“Peoples of the earth, you have all been poisoned.”
William S. Burroughs libro 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)
