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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

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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.
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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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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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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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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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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.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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