William S. Burroughs Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

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  The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Pet, Doe

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Pet, Individualism

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Cat, Eye

• Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Psychics

  William S Burroughs (2012). “The Cat Inside”, p.13, Penguin UK

• Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

• I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cute, Cat, People

  "Conversations with William S. Burroughs".

• My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

  William S. Burroughs

  Ignorance, Cat, Saved

  "Last Words: The Final Journals of 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

  Cat, Doe, Care

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hate, Stupid, Cat

  William S Burroughs (2012). “The Cat Inside”, p.66, Penguin UK

• His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

  William S. Burroughs

  Wall, Sadness, Cat

• 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

• You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

  William S. Burroughs

  Real, Cat, Looks

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.226, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cute, Cat, Self

• Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know what it needs or how to provide for it. Another dream years ago of a human child with eyes on stalks. It is very small, but can walk and talk "Don't you want me?" Again, I don't know how to care for the child. But I am dedicated to protecting and nurturing him at any cost! It is the function of the Guardian to protect hybrids and mutants in the vulnerable stage of infancy.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Children, Cat

  "The Cat Inside". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1986.

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