Some people think paradise is not being able to feel anything at all. Anaesthesia. You die that way. An organism can’t exist without pain.
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“The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which the pre-historic wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!”
― J R
― J R
“the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff”
― Ducks, Newburyport
― Ducks, Newburyport
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