Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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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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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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(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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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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