(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. BURROUGHSWhen you cut into the present the future leaks out.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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