Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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