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. BURROUGHSIn 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.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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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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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
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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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Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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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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There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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