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. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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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.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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 does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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