Paranoia is just having the right information.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSParanoia is just having the right information.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAs soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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. BURROUGHSThere isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhat does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNothing 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. BURROUGHSYou can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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