If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own curren…

William S. Burroughs
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If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency. ✨ Patti Smith: Advice to the Young. Patti Smith's interview with Christian Lund at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, vimeo.com. August 24, 2012.
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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. ✨ William S. Burroughs (1993). The Adding Machin … ▶
If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the py … ▶
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic sty … ▶
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 S. Burroughs (2007). Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reade … ▶
The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window. ✨ William S. Burroughs (1989). The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs, Penguin Group USA

If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency. ✨ Patti Smith: Advice to the Young. Patti Smith's interview with Christian Lund at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, vimeo.com. August 24, 2012.

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