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. BURROUGHSBlack magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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