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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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Business Mindset Yourself
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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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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Future Leak Present Yourself
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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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
Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Attractive Perfection Sexuality
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.
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Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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