(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. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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