(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 miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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