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. BURROUGHSDo not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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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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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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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