(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. BURROUGHSThere 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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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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