I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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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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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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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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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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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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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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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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