You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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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 began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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