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what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

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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William Lee
William Burroughs
Ouiliam Baroouz
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William S. (William Seward) Burroughs
Faces
Dominant
Morons
Spiritual
Hopeless
Sadistic
Hate
Consists
Swollen
Horrible
Moron
Planet
Famine
Species
Bearing
Planets
Rubbish
Stupid
Hideous
Lineaments

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