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William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

American Writer

Born: Feb 5, 1914

Died: Aug 2, 1997

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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. William S. Burroughs

National Alcohol Other Our Horror Tend Any Regard Use Special

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. William S. Burroughs

Knowledge Relative Superficial Only Going Your

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. William S. Burroughs

Happiness You Happy Virtue Simply Function By-Product

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs

Writing Space Psychic Thoroughly See No Point Area Point Maker Am Been Acting Explorer Exploring Map Inner

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues. William S. Burroughs

Man World Young Rather More Simply Issues Place Young Man Tolerant

An addict never stops growing. Stupider. William S. Burroughs

Addict Never Stupider Stops Growing

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. William S. Burroughs

You Just Be Arbitrary Just

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear. William S. Burroughs

Technology Fear Able Writers Never Most Make Sort Understand Doing Been Refuse Available Themselves Serious Things

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. William S. Burroughs

Pleasure Relief Only Perhaps

The face of evil is always the face of total need. William S. Burroughs

Evil Face Total Always Need

I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts. William S. Burroughs

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing. William S. Burroughs

Wisdom Experience Thinking Enough Final Any Thing

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. William S. Burroughs

People Society Dream Weeks Dead Who Two Two Weeks

Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation. William S. Burroughs

Art Myself Writing Degree Other Write Writer Never He Almost Demands Like Know Until Because Hand Going Automatic Premeditation Speaking Help Paint Activity Differs

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