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“I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison.”
― Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
― Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings
“Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“No! No! No!”
― Ferdydurke
― Ferdydurke
“Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines. ”
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“I submitted entirely to the dog and, as a man with no gift for dancing, I had the feeling that I was able to dance for the first time in my life, secure and without inhibition. Occasionally, we kissed, the dog and I. Woke up feeling extremely satisfied.”
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