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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. Burroughs

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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Avoid Future Person Time Yourself
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Future Leak Present Yourself
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Business Mindset Yourself
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Deep Hard Time Heaven Hell Live Man Realize Yourself
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Cat Growth Myself People Preference
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creation Imagination Live Myself World
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Black Effective Magic Operate
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Myself Sleep Togetherness Way
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Existence Yourself
Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Change Home Learning Move Yourself
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Comfortable Dedication Hate Production

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