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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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I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.
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Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
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For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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We should exterminate all rational thought.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
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If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
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Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.
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I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
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Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.
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Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
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What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.
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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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Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
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Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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