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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
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as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.
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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
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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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If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.
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In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.
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I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: New Mexico, land of enchantment.
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I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.
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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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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.
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The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.
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Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
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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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Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?
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