You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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