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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

William S. Burroughs

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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Avoid Future Person Time Yourself
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Act Advantage Himself Man
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Comfortable Dedication Hate Production
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Law Question Start Stop
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Death Dreams People Society
If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Face Fact Government Insane Leadership Worse
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Desperate Escape Hope Material Yourself
I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control Image Machine

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