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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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
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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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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
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It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.
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