William S. Burroughs - Love Quotes

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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

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

I think that what we call love is a fraud perpetrated by the female sex, and that the point of sexual relations between men is nothing that we could call love, but rather what we might call recognition.

William S. Burroughs

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE.

William S. Burroughs

You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.

William S. Burroughs