There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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Do 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.
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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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