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. BURROUGHSIf after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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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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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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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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The world is now a virus.
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I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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 cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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