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

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I knew that I no longer wanted to take junk. If I could have made one decision, it would have been no more junk, ever, but when it came to the process...more

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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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Perhaps all pleasure in only relief

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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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A junkie 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. A s...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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A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of...more

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A junkie spends half his life waiting.

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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