In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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