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The Planet drifts to random insect doom.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
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Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.
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When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.
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You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
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All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.
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I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.
William S. Burroughs
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
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The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.
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I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man.
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I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
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You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
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Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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I wouldn't be in your position - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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