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Off Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- 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:…
- Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
- 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…
- 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…
- Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.
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