Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative go — William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

— William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953-1957
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