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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.

William S. Burroughs

If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Life Surprise Yourself
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Defeat Hustle Level Mark Yourself
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Change Knowledge Reality Yourself
When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Death Growth Stop Yourself
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
I’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Feeling Hands Myself Reality Representation Science Universe
The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
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. BURROUGHS

Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Body Himself Learning Mindset Work
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
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
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artifact Design Man Present Science Space Travel
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Law Question Start Stop
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

Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creation Imagination Live Myself World
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Assume Care Hate Myself People Position

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