You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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