Arbitrary Quote by William S. Burroughs Download Open image “Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.” — William S. Burroughs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arbitrary
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“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
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No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
