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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
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.
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There's no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.
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Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.
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Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.
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England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.
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Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
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Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
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Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. I don't have any whiskey, may be a fact but it is not a truth.
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Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.
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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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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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