William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
William S. Burroughs
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.
William S. Burroughs
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.
William S. Burroughs
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
William S. Burroughs
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
William S. Burroughs
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William S. Burroughs
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
William S. Burroughs
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
William S. Burroughs
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
William S. Burroughs
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
William S. Burroughs
The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
William S. Burroughs
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
William S. Burroughs
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
William S. Burroughs
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. Burroughs
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
William S. Burroughs
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