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Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.
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