Burroughs

Burroughs may refer to:

  • Burroughs (surname), people and fictional characters
  • The Burroughs, a district of London
  • Burroughs (crater), on Mars
  • 21811 Burroughs, an asteroid
  • Burroughs School (Conway, South Carolina), on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Burroughs Corporation, a maker of adding machines and computers
  • Borroughs (film), a documentary about William S. Burroughs

Famous quotes containing the word burroughs:

    “After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    “Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can’t be ironic all the time.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.”
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)