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“We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.”

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Nicholas Lea is a Canadian actor born on June 22, 1962. He is known for his roles in various television series and films, with his most notable performance being as Damien Carrol in 'The X-Files'. more

“I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.”

People Ifs Want Important Care Hate Hell Position Positive Weak Assuming Affection Don't Care Spread I Don't Care Guts Worthless Spirited Important Questions Sulky

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.”

World Want Long Form Left Can Do Violence Behavior What You Want Crude Robbery Antisocial Antisocial Behavior Tangier

Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.”

Facts Levels Vision Seeing Madness Confusion Confusing

Author:William S. Burroughs

“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 and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.”

Running Waiting Can Do Cutting Sick Down And Clock Junk Places To Go

Author:William S. Burroughs

“It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter”

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“When you cut into the present the future leaks out.”

Cutting Leaks

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.”

Trying Meat Cheese Dairy

Author:Lynda Carter

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