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. BURROUGHSHe who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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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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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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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 am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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