Burroughs

Speech parts

1. Burroughs - Noun

2. Burroughs - Proper noun

Meaning

United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950)

United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898)

United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)

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Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? Robert A. Heinlein

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good. Brendan Fraser

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. Allen Ginsberg

Of the Beat triumvirate, Kerouac was probably both the most pathetic and least noxious. Psychologically, he was a mess-as indeed were Ginsberg and Burroughs. But, unlike them, Kerouac lacked the knack of sanctifying his pathologies and inducing others to bow down in obeisance. Allen Ginsberg

Real warriors like William Burroughs or Leonard Cohen or Wallace Stevens examine the hollow as well as anybody; they get in there, look far into the dark, and yet come out with poetry. Ken Kesey

I first heard of the 23 Enigma from William S. Burroughs. Robert Anton Wilson

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