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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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Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.
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Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
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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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Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
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I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
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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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Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
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I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.
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[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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