(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. BURROUGHSArtists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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