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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.

William S. Burroughs

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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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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Aware Knowledge Surrounding
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Act Areas Explorer Myself Point Space Survey Writing
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
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