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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

William S. Burroughs

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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Avoid Commitment Fact Goal Human Myself Negative Suffering
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Awakening Defeat Freedom Life Mindset
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Aware Knowledge Surrounding
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

Artist Creativity Existence Hope Myself Observation People View
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Act Areas Explorer Myself Point Space Survey Writing
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Appearance Evil Face Need
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Fake Food Goodness Meal Quality Yourself
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Black Effective Magic Operate
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Animal Death Myself Person Philosophy Purpose
There are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Crowd Innocent
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. BURROUGHS

Feeling Hope Myself Politics Rise State
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Artist Change Fact Mindset Myself Politics
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Gun Innocent People Weapon
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity
There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Dreams Place Practice
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Change Knowledge Reality Yourself

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