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" 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. "
William S. Burroughs
Career
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Trade
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" Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. "
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" Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. "
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" Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. "
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" Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. "
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" Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Writing
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" Nothing is true, everything is permitted. "
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True
Everything
" The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. "
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" In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. "
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" A functioning police state needs no police. "
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Only
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" The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues. "
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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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