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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the womb you do not realize the word-armor you carry for example, when you read this page your eyes move irresistibly from left to right following the words that you have been accustomed to.
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In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.
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If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.
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Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
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Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.
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as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
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Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
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Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.
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I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
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