The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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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.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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