I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. 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. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

William S. Burroughs

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when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

William S. Burroughs

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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

William S. Burroughs


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Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

William S. Burroughs

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Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.

William S. Burroughs


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The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
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danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of
direct confrontation, you are immortal.

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Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William S. Burroughs

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Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

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And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.

William S. Burroughs

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