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«If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk, if you catch your foot in a curled-up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair, go back and repeat the sequence. You will find yourself surprised how far off course you were to hit that window jamb, that door, that chair. Get back on course and do it again. How can you pilot a spacecraft if you can't find your way around your own apartment?»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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apartment, curled, curled up, desk, far-off, jamb, knuckle, knuckles, spacecraft, The Sequence, toe
«I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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American history, diseased, folk, folk hero, go down, irreverence, Nixon, revered, revering, Richard, Richard Nixon, skepticism, strike back
«Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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applied, associations, black book, black magic, book review, capture, disagreeable, floating, free association, implying, off-putting, precise, prejudicial, reviewer, reviewers, reviews, unimportant
«Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.»
«My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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as such, firmly, gangster, gangsters, host, institute, instituted, Pasteur, relatively, smallpox, smallpox virus, sneer, sneering, stable, symbiosis, that is to say, The Other Half, viruses
«Whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers.»
«Dream long and dream hard enoughYou will come to knowDreaming can make it so . . .»
Author: William S. Burroughs
«Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.»
«The face of evil is always the face of total need.»
«Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.»
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