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. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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The world is now a virus.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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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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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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