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You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
William S. Burroughs -
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
William S. Burroughs
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A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
William S. Burroughs -
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
William S. Burroughs -
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
William S. Burroughs -
Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
William S. Burroughs -
If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner.
William S. Burroughs -
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
William S. Burroughs
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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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Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.
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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.
William S. Burroughs -
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
William S. Burroughs -
O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.
William S. Burroughs -
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.
William S. Burroughs