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" Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. "

William S. Burroughs

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" The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. "

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" Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm? "

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" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "

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" Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. "

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" The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues. "

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" Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. "

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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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" A functioning police state needs no police. "

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" It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. "

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" Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. "

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" After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. "

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" The face of evil is always the face of total need. "

William S. Burroughs

" In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. "

William S. Burroughs

" You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. "

William S. Burroughs

" How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. "

William S. Burroughs

" The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. "

William S. Burroughs

" 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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" No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. "

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" Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear. "

William S. Burroughs

" Language is a virus from outer space. "

William S. Burroughs

" Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. "

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" I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. "

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" Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. "

William S. Burroughs

" You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. "

William S. Burroughs

" In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. "

William S. Burroughs

" Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. "

William S. Burroughs

" Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. "

William S. Burroughs

" An addict never stops growing. Stupider. "

William S. Burroughs

" There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. "

William S. Burroughs

" Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. "

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