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If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.

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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
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Painter
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
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I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.
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I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now.
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The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.
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Like Spain, I am bound to the past.
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