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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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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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I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.
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First there was a young guy sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother, then there was an older fatter person sitting in front of television in a T-shirt drinking beer with his mother.
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My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.
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What are Americans? We've got everything from sharecroppers to atomic physicist here, and there's certainly no uniformity in their thought processes. There's very little they have in common. In fact, Americans should we say, have less in common than any other nationality.
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Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.
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In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.
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I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
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The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.
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Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.
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Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
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You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
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Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.
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It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
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Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.
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