The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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 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.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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