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William S. Burroughs Quotes
Five of the best book quotes from William S. Burroughs
01
“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
time
ᐧ
pain
ᐧ
intensity
ᐧ
to resist
ᐧ
to break your will
concepts
02
“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
just
ᐧ
judging
ᐧ
arbitrary
concepts
03
“Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.”
William S. Burroughs
author
The Naked Lunch
book
inner self
ᐧ
marks
ᐧ
hustlers
ᐧ
con men
concepts
04
“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
not working
ᐧ
means to an end
concepts
05
“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
life
ᐧ
relief
ᐧ
pleasure
ᐧ
tensions
ᐧ
junk
concepts
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to resist
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to break your will
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control
not working
means to an end
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relief
pleasure
tensions
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