Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
Interpretation
Honesty is essential, and once you have spoken your truth, there is no need for further discussion.
This quote by William S. Burroughs emphasizes the importance of honesty and direct communication. By advocating for speaking the truth once and then remaining silent, Burroughs suggests that clarity and openness can prevent unnecessary words and conflict, allowing for a more peaceful existence afterward.
In practice
In a speech about integrity, one might use this quote to emphasize the value of truthfulness.
God save the Queen and a fascist regime β¦ a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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