A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start.


William S. Burroughs

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It?s just junk. It?s now the city?s problem.
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Schools can make money without selling junk food.
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The current federal regulations limiting junk food is very narrow.
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We try to take the junk out.
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Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.
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Silence is golden but too long a silence an imitation junk
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Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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It's an ongoing mess of junk, overgrown and unkempt.
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You want the right thing, not junk.
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Jesus is the anti virus to the junk files we have in life.
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The future of junk e-mail is that you need a receptive audience,
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Junk is something you keep for years and then throw out two weeks before you need it.
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I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.
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We need all that mixture of paper (junk mail, catalogs and newspapers) to recycle quality newsprint.
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For a lot of people, they don't care if they're junk trees.
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At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
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There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
VANESSA MARCIL
I was always a junk food person, still am.
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Your data is for sale. Let’s hear it from spam industry
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Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.
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It was nice to have him come in. He's got some junk he can get some guys going with.
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You pay $400,000 for a trailer that's going to be junk soon. It's incredible.
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You can give them the ability to get more junk in there, for better or worse; they like it.
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If I don't eat junk, I don't gain weight.
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It's now what they call space junk, I guess.
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It is junk science. There's no peer review. It's jumping from one conclusion to the next.
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If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
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I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
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Social media is like your own personal brand of junk food; some is just added calories.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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There is a kidney-shaped fish pool outside the picture window. I cleaned it out and put in some larg...
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And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking the...
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted ...
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Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugl...
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to ...
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All the filth and horror, fear, hate disease and death of human history flows between you and the We...
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Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.
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I don't make myself work. It's just the thing I want to do. To be completely alone in a room, to kno...
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We gotta find a way off this goddamn cop-ridden planet.
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I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, ...
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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it...
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We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that ...
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All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you...
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There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit w...
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Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL think...
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner sp...
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My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space...
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.
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I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio...
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We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
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Nothing is true, everything is permitted
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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
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Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c...
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You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of fink...
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The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus...
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
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Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.
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I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s...
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The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to...
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Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
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Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena...
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Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be...
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Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...
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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people...
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Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any str...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...
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Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
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May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the fr...
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In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a...
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After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
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Exterminate all rational thought
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O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
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If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values.
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Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?

His whole abdomen ...
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Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." Th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Hemingway said:
'It don't come anymore.'
So where did it go?
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