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" Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. "
William S. Burroughs
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Old
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" Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. "
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" The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. "
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" Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm? "
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" The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. "
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Pet
Love
" Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. "
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" The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do. "
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" You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. "
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Live
Alone
" There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. "
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Who
Society
" Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. "
William S. Burroughs
Everything
Escape
Leave
" This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. "
William S. Burroughs
War
Nature
Principles
" Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. "
William S. Burroughs
Learning
Questions
You
" In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. "
William S. Burroughs
Space
Acting
I Am
" An addict never stops growing. Stupider. "
William S. Burroughs
Never
Stops
Stupider
" In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. "
William S. Burroughs
Sadness
Sad
Place
" Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing. "
William S. Burroughs
Thinking
Wisdom
Enough
" Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear. "
William S. Burroughs
Serious
Doing
Technology
" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "
William S. Burroughs
Visual
Writing
Picture
" Nothing is true, everything is permitted. "
William S. Burroughs
Permitted
True
Everything
" Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. "
William S. Burroughs
Facts
Having
Just
" Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. "
William S. Burroughs
Own
Control
System
" You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. "
William S. Burroughs
Good
Fake
You
" 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
Way
Nation
Man
" 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
Own
Trouble
World
" I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? "
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Direction
Words
Beautiful
" The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues. "
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Young Man
Man
Place
" No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. "
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Life
Pick
Up
" Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. "
William S. Burroughs
Just
You
Arbitrary
" After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' "
William S. Burroughs
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Space
Want
" Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.' "
William S. Burroughs
God
Eyes
You