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William S. Burroughs

"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."

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"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."

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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

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"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

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"Wisdom lies at the edge of intelligence. Joy lies at the edge of happiness. Faith lies at the edge of boldness. Love lies at the edge of kindness. God lies at the edge of righteousness."

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"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."

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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

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"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

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"One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions."

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"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."

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"Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering."

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"A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of everything living and spontaneous. The live human being has moved out of these bodies long ago. But something moved in when the original tenant moved out."
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"Two Lesbian Agents with glazed faces of grafted penis flesh sat sipping spinal fluid through alabaster straws."
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"As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle."
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"I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact."
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"No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought."
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"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."
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