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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.

William S. Burroughs

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Consumer Production Simplicity Society
Open your mind and let the pictures out
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Mindset Open Photograph Yourself
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Dreams Place Practice
I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Feeling Hope Myself Politics Rise State
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Kill Love Natural Pain Perspective
If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Forever Life Time Waste Yourself
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Allow Business Mindset Nation Sarcasm Thankful
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Amount Business Mindset Rule Yourself
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Cancer Sick Society
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.

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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.

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