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. BURROUGHSIf I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.
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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 best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
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