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Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
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Painter
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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Ouiliam Baroouz
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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
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To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
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Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
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He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
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Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
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Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.
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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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The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.
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Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
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I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: New Mexico, land of enchantment.
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Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!
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If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
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Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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