You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBe just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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The world is now a virus.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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