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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

William S. Burroughs
Hurt, Feelings, Risk

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

William S. Burroughs
Addiction, Drug, Feelings

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

William S. Burroughs
Heart, Feelings, Stills
William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.6, Grove Press

I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.

William S. Burroughs
Moving, Feelings, Vision
William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.

William S. Burroughs
Feelings, Pressure, Expansion
Source: realitystudio.org

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

William S. Burroughs
Sex, Ideas, Feelings

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