(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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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The world is now a virus.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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