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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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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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William Lee
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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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[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.
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Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
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Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
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