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When you stop growing you start dying. An addict never stops growing. – A user is a continual state of shrinking and growing in his daily cycle of sho...more

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I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means of increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

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Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

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The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wak...more

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

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Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkies run on junktime and junkmetabolism. They are sub...more

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You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

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I don’t spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking...more

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In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of ...more

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The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no ...more