I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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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Language is a virus from outer space.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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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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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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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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