You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSmash the control images. Smash the control machine.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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