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Shooting is my principal pastime.
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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Shooting
Pastime
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
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Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.
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The Planet drifts to random insect doom.
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