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No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
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St. Louis
Missouri
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It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
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Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.
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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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The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.
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The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.
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You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
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Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
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I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
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I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.
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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.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.
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My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.
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