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The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.
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
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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William Lee
William Burroughs
Ouiliam Baroouz
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William S. (William Seward) Burroughs
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Nova
Arrest
Expose
Criminals
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There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.
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Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.
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