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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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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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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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