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Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
William S. Burroughs
First
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs
Society
People
Dream
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
Love
Care
Nothing
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
Education
Knowledge
Values
Facts
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs
Facts
Paranoia
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Control
Machine
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
William S. Burroughs
People
Silence
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
William S. Burroughs
Cats
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
William S. Burroughs
Alcohol
Horror
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
William S. Burroughs
Nothing
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
Business
Mind
Trouble
World
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
William S. Burroughs
World
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
Travel
Man
Present
Space
State
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
William S. Burroughs
Day
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William S. Burroughs
Pleasure