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Down Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- 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…
- 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…
- A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on…
- The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening…
- Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete…
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- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell