What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you stop growing you start dying.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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(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.
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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 simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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