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“Melancholy Baby dies from an overdose of time”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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“Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: apocalypse, burroughs, doom

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“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising."

[The Writer's Digest Interview: Stephen King & Jerry B. Jenkins (Jessica Strawser, Writer's Digest, May/June 2009)]”
― Stephen King

tags: creative-process, exercise, failure, imagination, revision, writing

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“To travel in space you must leave the old verbal garbage behind: God talk, country talk, mother talk, love talk, party talk. You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. Anyone who prays in space is not there.

from “It Is Necessary to Travel…,”
― William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays

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“The conversations had a nightmare flatness, talking dice spilled in the tube metal chairs, human aggregates disintegrating in cosmic inanity, random events in a dying universe where everything is exactly what it appears to be, and no other relation than juxtaposition is possible.”
― William S. Burroughs, Junky

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