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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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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.
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.
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Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
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I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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