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I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.
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
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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?
William S. Burroughs
Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
William S. Burroughs
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
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I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
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Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.
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Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.
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There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.
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Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.
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Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
William S. Burroughs
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
William S. Burroughs
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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