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. BURROUGHSNothing 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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