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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
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Photographer
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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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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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - Your formula is disgusting and filthy? Not very far.
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Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. I don't have any whiskey, may be a fact but it is not a truth.
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That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
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I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .
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Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
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All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
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A functioning police state needs no police.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
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It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
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We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
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The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: A foot stamping on a human face forever! This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.
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There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.
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in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
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