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. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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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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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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