(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. BURROUGHSPeople have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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