The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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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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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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