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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
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We should exterminate all rational thought.
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When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
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As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.
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We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
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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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Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.
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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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Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.
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You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
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I don't care if people hate my guts I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
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No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
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In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations.
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Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.
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I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
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Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.
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We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.
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I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.
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Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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