By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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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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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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