Paranoia is just having the right information.
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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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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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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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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