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Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
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
William Seward Burroughs II
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William Burroughs
Ouiliam Baroouz
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Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
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