Burroughs

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“Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)

“Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)

“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)