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William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.
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The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
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If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe is the word, gentlemen, heh heh for passive intercourse or (b) if he is a different type baboon more extrovert and well-adjusted, lead an attack on an even weaker baboon if he can find one.
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My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.
William S. Burroughs
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
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The Planet drifts to random insect doom.
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Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
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I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.
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Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?
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Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.
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