Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

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Alcohol

Author

William S. Burroughs

Source

Naked Lunch

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Burroughs, William Seward. The Naked Lunch. Olympia Press/Grove Press, 1959, appendix.

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