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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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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.
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This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
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It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.
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I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
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Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.
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Like Spain, I am bound to the past.
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
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There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.
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Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
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Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
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For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't. They claim that you can get addicted to opiates with one shot, and you can't. They over-estimate the physical bad effects, and so forth.
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If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.
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You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.
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