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The Naked Lunch Quotes
Five of the best book quotes from The Naked Lunch
01
“You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...”
William S. Burroughs
author
The Naked Lunch
book
William Lee
character
control
ᐧ
means to an end
ᐧ
not working
concepts
02
“It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.”
William S. Burroughs
author
The Naked Lunch
book
William Lee
character
intensity
ᐧ
time
ᐧ
pain
ᐧ
to break your will
ᐧ
to resist
concepts
03
“As one judge said to another: ‘Be just and if you can’t be just be arbitrary.”
William S. Burroughs
author
The Naked Lunch
book
judging
ᐧ
just
ᐧ
arbitrary
concepts
04
“If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process.”
William S. Burroughs
author
The Naked Lunch
book
Dr. Benway
character
pleasure
ᐧ
relief
ᐧ
tensions
ᐧ
junk
ᐧ
life
concepts
05
“Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.”
William S. Burroughs
author
The Naked Lunch
book
hustlers
ᐧ
con men
ᐧ
marks
ᐧ
inner self
concepts
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William Lee
control
means to an end
not working
intensity
time
pain
to break your will
to resist
judging
just
arbitrary
Dr. Benway
pleasure
relief
tensions
junk
life
hustlers
con men
marks
inner self
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