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. BURROUGHSThe first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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 project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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