(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. BURROUGHSI am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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