“There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose “story” “plot” “continuity”... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer...”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.”
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“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
― Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
“You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.”
― Night Film
― Night Film
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