William S. Burroughs Quotes About Illness

• La idea de que la adicción es de algún modo una enfermedad psicológica es, en mi opinión, totalmente ridícula. Es tan psicológica como la malaria. Es una cuestión de exposición. La gente, en general, tomará cualquier intoxicante o cualquier droga que le produzca un efecto placentero si está a su alcance.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pensamiento, Ideas, Personas

  William S. Burroughs (2001). "Burroughs en vivo: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997", Semiotext

• Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Cancer, Laughing

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.165, Grove Press

• A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.

  William S. Burroughs

  Thinking, Doctors, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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