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 the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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