I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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