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You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
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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Painter
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Shooting is my principal pastime.
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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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A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
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Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
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If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.
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Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.
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Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.
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As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
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Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.
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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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