There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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