Quote: W. S. Burroughs, regarding writers in Rangoon – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

Quote: W. S. Burroughs, regarding writers in Rangoon

“As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.”

William S. Burroughs, The Adding Machine: Selected Essays

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