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. BURROUGHSThere couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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