“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.” FeelsHumansStatesPainTurnsSexAnimalFunctionPlantIntenseTransitionKillersUsersOrganismsTimelessDelayDiscomfortJunkWithdrawalOpiumStationaryPainlessLibidoSex Drive Author:William S. Burroughs
“A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.” ThinkingFeelsMayFactsLiteratureLinesDoctorsIllnessManifestationDisgustingSymptomsArbitraryDescribing Author:William S. Burroughs
“I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.” FeelsStatesAriseHopelessDeterioration Author:William S. Burroughs
“I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.” FeelsMayHardDoneCreativeEastUselessEtcRoutineAddictHeroinCreative WorkOpiumDerivativesOpiatesMorphineRoutine Work Author:William S. Burroughs
“The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.” ThinkingFeelsHas BeensAbleCertainConsciousnessDrugAreasAvailableGet BackPsychicsExpandingCannabisLsdHallucinogensConsciousness Expanding Author:William S. Burroughs
“I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.” FeelsHumansFeelingsCertainLinesConsciousnessPressureInstrumentsImpressionOperationsHostPrincipalExpansionMonopolySensoryMutation Author:William S. Burroughs
“The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.” FeelsShouldWholePurposeDangerMachines Author:William S. Burroughs
“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.” FeelsRealHandsRealityUniverseScientistConspiracyAddict Author:William S. Burroughs
“We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.” PeopleNeedsFeelsOrderOpportunityMediaMassMachinesMass Media Author:William S. Burroughs
“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.” FeelsDoeFeelingsHurtRiskDutyDefenseIntensityReserves Author:William S. Burroughs
“Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.” IfsKnowsFeelsFeelingsPainCoursesLaughingStudentsMonthsCancerIllnessHeavyMedicalSicknessControlledSymptomsExposureSpectrumDoseInfectionTerminalExcruciating PainTerminal Cancer Book:Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs Source: Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
“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.” MenFeelsFeelingsHouseFearScaredSuperiorsContactNutsSane Author:William S. Burroughs
“If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.” IfsFeelsPersonsLostSpendingSpending TimePlasma Author:William S. Burroughs
“I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.” FeelsShouldFirstsWould BeFormAsksAreasPatientAddictionTreatmentIrrelevantAddictPsychotherapyNarcotics Author:William S. Burroughs
“If 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.” IfsNeedsFeelsLostLike YouExposedPerniciousPlasmaAnemia Author:William S. Burroughs
