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. BURROUGHSI don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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