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. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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