# Quote — William S. Burroughs, The Western Lands

> No job too dirty for a fucking scientist.

- Author: [William S. Burroughs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs.md)
- Book: [The Western Lands](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/the-western-lands.md)
- Page: 8
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/the-western-lands/no-job-too

## More from this book

> Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

p. 113 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/the-western-lands/consider-the-impasse.md)

> 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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> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-s-burroughs/the-western-lands/now-what-sort.md)