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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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
Photographer
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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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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In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
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All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.
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I don't care if people hate my guts I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.
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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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Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
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The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
William S. Burroughs
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
William S. Burroughs
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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