Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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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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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The world is now a virus.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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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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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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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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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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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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