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- William S. Burroughs: American writer and artist
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
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A functioning police state needs no police.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER.''
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
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As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
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Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
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Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
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But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
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