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. BURROUGHSPeople 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 project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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