You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you cut into the present the future leaks out.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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 world is now a virus.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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