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. BURROUGHSI project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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The world is now a virus.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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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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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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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