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Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.
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
William Seward Burroughs II
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Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.
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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
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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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A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.
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You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
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The nonconformist here may be beat down by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - Your formula is disgusting and filthy? Not very far.
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We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.
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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
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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 dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.
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The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.
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That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
William S. Burroughs
I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
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