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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

William S. Burroughs

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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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Feeling Hope Myself Politics Rise State
There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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Alone Country Existence Learning Live Religion Silence Yourself
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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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Innocence Passenger Place
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
Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Information Myself Right
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Appearance Evil Face Need
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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Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Control Image Machine
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Panic Realize Science Sudden Yourself
Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Existence Yourself
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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Friendship Need Presence Togetherness 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
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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Animal Behavior Cat Nature Offering
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Accident Magical Universe Willing

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