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. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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