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. BURROUGHSSmash the control images. Smash the control machine.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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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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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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The world is now a virus.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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