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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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Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
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And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
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The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.
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Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.
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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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Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.
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I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
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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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