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William S. Burroughs Quotes:

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

Birthday: February 5

Death: August 2

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

- William S. Burroughs

source: Interview with Allen Ginsberg, sensitiveskinmagazine.com. March 1992.

topic: Order, Ideas, Lunch, Why Change, Printer, Major Change

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