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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
Screenwriter
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
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Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
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Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
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Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
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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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I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.
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Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.
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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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