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Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
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
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials.
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Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.
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as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.
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[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.
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