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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

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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Consumer Production Simplicity Society
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Fact Information
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Desperate Escape Hope Material Yourself
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Information Myself Right
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Ghost Lust Morning Myself Project Sunlight
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Fiction Story Word
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Accident Magical Universe Willing

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