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I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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
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The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
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My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.
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Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's children might be a different color is something very alarming to them - in short they are committed to the maintenance of the static image.
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Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.
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This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
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I don't care if people hate my guts I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
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