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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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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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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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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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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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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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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
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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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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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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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There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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(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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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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