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The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.
Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.
The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing.
If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.
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.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.
When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.
[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.
I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.
All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.
If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells.
Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.
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.
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.
You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.