William S. Burroughs Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Pain, Animal

• 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.

  William S. Burroughs

  Animal, Persons, I Can

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.371, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Morning, Animal

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.507, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Animal, Years

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