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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 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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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Dreams Place Practice
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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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Forever Life Time Waste Yourself
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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Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Answer Learning Mindset Question Relax Yourself
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Information Myself Right
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Escape Possible Prison Yourself
There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
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Absence Connection I Miss You Myself Pain Time Writing
The nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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Drugs Feeling Yourself

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