(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. BURROUGHSYou can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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The world is now a virus.
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