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. BURROUGHSHome 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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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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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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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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When you stop growing you start dying.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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