You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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