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. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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