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" Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. "

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" 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

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" Language is a virus from outer space. "

" 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. "

" Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. "

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

" Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. "

" Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. "

" My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. "

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" You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. "

" Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm? "

" It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. "

" An addict never stops growing. Stupider. "

" The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. "

" 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. "

" No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. "

" Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. "

" The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. "

" The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. "

" After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' "

" Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. "

" How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. "

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

" Nothing is true, everything is permitted. "

" Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. "

" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "

" Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. "

" Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. "

" If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. "

" A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. "

" You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. "