Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The on…

William S. Burroughs
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Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2013). Cities of the Red Night: A Novel, p.166, Holt Paperbacks
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No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water. ✨ William S. Burroughs (1993). The Adding … ▶
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. ✨ William S. Burroughs (1989). The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs, Penguin Group USA
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2007). Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance. ✨ Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2001). Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997, Semiotext

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