William S. Burroughs Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Dog, Lying

  "Naked Lunch". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1959.

• Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Country, Lying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

  William S. Burroughs

  Lying, Book, Men

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.53, Grove Press

• For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.

  William S. Burroughs

  Lying, Desire, Might

  Source: realitystudio.org

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