(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. BURROUGHSI am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The 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.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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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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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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 a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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