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“Know who I am? . . . 'Good Bye Mister' is my name . . . 'Wind and Dust' is my name . . . 'Never Happened' is my name . . .”

Book:The Ticket That Exploded

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The Ticket That Exploded

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William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs was an American novelist known for his unique writing style and his significant influence on postmodern literature. His works often involve social criticism, political satire, and surrealistic elements. more

“After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. This was of course due in part to the media, the arch-opportunists. They know a story when they see one, and the Beat movement was a story, and a big one . . . The Beat literary movement came at exactly the right time and said something that millions of people of all nationalities all over the world were waiting to hear. You can't tell anybody anything he doesn't know already. The alienation, the restlessness, the dissatisfaction were already there waiting when Kerouac pointed out the road.”

Jack Kerouac On The Road William S Burroughs William Burroughs

Author:William S. Burroughs

“He [William S Burroughs] has no patience for my kind of neurosis, I know... But since then I've been facing my nature full in the face and the result is a purge.”

Neurosis Self Examination Jack Kerouac William S Burroughs Allen Ginsberg

Book:Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

Source: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

“Era una sera d'aprile, appena prima dell'imbrunire. Uscii nella veranda posteriore. All'estremità della veranda c'era il primo gatto grigio e accanto a lui c'era un grosso gatto bianco che non avevo mai visto. Il gatto bianco viene verso di me, strofinandosi contro le gambe del tavolo, piano, esitante. Alla fine si acciambella ai miei piedi, fa le fusa.”

William S Burroughs Gattino The Cat Inside

Book:The Cat Inside

Source: The Cat Inside

“There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.”

Books Immorality William S Burroughs

Book:The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

Source: The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

“I was no longer needing to be special, because I was no longer so caught in my puny separateness that had to keep proving I was something. I was part of the universe, like a tree is, or like grass is, or like water is. Like storms, like roses. I was just part of it all.”

Wholeness All Is One The Whole Part Of Life

Book:Changing Lenses

Source: Changing Lenses

“Let me tell you something about sad days. They’re just part of life, but the best thing you can do on the happy days or on the sad ones is to do what you do best with everything you’ve got.”

Perseverance Do Your Best Part Of Life

Book:Close to Famous

Source: Close to Famous

“Death is the saddest part of life.”

Life Death Sad Part Of Life

Author:deAnna Lea

“Eating, drinking, sleeping, waking, and loving are a natural part of life. The unplanned and purposeless life is to be transmitted, but for the purposeful and planned human life, the most extreme and severe conditions, not only to compete but sometimes life has to sacrifice.”

Part Of Life

Author:Ehsan Sehgal

“I HAD known him as a bulldozer, as a samurai, as an android programmed to kill, as Plastic Man and Titanium Man and Matter-Eater Lad, as a Buick Electra, as a Peterbilt truck, and even, for a week, as the Mackinac Bridge, but it was as a werewolf that Timothy Stokes finally went too far.”

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Book:Werewolves in Their Youth

Source: Werewolves in Their Youth

“There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be trust as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in behavior may be. It is always on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest.”

Works Righteousness

Book:The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield

Source: The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield

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