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Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
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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St. Louis
Missouri
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The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
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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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There's no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
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If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.
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You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool! Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
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Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
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Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
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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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Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
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A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
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Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.
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That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
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As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
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