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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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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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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.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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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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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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