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. BURROUGHSIn 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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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