I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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