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The word is now a virus.
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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Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
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If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.
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The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.
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Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
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The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.
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How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - Your formula is disgusting and filthy? Not very far.
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The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.
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Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
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Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.
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Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.
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Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.
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They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
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