William S. Burroughs II

"You are not paid off to be quiet about what you know. You are paid not to find it out." 
William S. Burroughs

Quoted in:
Barry Miles
Call Me Burroughs
Twelve (Hachette Book Group), New York, 2014

Reviewed in:
Ann Douglas
King of Cool 
The New York Times Book Review
February 23, 2014

William S. Burroughs

"He believed that language was a virus that had achieved equilibrium with its human host, and that “blocks” of language and thought enforced convention, making it necessary to find techniques, from cut-ups to e-meters, to break the patterns."

From Luc Santes' review of  Rub Out the Words. The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1959-1974 in this Sunday's New York Times.


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