#burroughs

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

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#empty #i #i think #into #my own

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man. ↗

— Gregory Corso

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#aristocratic #because #burroughs #dug #guy