What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS(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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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