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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Assume Care Hate Myself People Position
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Burden Hate Ignorance Knowledge Love Prejudice Presence Proud Sincere Threat Yourself
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Defeat Hustle Level Mark Yourself
Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Language One Liner Space Virus
The world is now a virus.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

One Liner Virus World
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Conflict Hope Manifestation Operation Politics Profit Situation Surface Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Beginning Contact Depression Feeling Man Myself Scare Superior
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Business Disease Mindset Trouble Virus World
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Escape Possible Prison Yourself
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Alone Yourself
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
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Himself Important Individual Possible Training Win

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