(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. BURROUGHSHow long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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The world is now a virus.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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