BookBrief Logo
Junky
Goodreads ratings
3.84 / 5
Add to Your Library

Sign in to save this book to your reading lists

"Junky" Quotes

A harrowing and brutally honest account of drug addiction and its destructive grip on the author's life.

Quotes

There is no clear line between the real world and the dream world, no neat definition of what is real and what is unreal.

William S. Burroughs

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product.

William S. Burroughs

It is every man's dream to live without pain.

William S. Burroughs

It is not devils, but men who do these dreadful things.

William S. Burroughs

There is no other redemption than the oblivion of sleep.

William S. Burroughs

Out of nowhere, the thought came. I have to get off this stuff. I have to keep up appearances.

William S. Burroughs

Desperate sick people who want to die, but are afraid to kill themselves.

William S. Burroughs

And now I sometimes use junk jus to keep from being sick. And I fail. It’s always paradise for about five days, and then the nightmare starts.

William S. Burroughs

A thing that got shoved down one’s throat, a bitter taste that one couldn’t wash away.

William S. Burroughs

Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism.

William S. Burroughs