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. BURROUGHSThe nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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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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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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 best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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