There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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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.
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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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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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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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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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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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Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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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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