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You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
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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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Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
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Time is what death needs to grow people in.
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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
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Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
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I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
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Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
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For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.
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All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.
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Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
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Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.
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No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
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