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Function Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
- 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…
- Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
- 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…
- There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a…
- 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…
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- Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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