Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMost 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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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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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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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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.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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