If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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