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.
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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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The world is now a virus.
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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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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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