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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

William S. Burroughs

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
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Afraid Face Meaning People Shadow
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Change Home Learning Move Yourself
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Business Mindset Yourself
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Comfortable Dedication Hate Production
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Fact Information
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Alive Alone Yourself
There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Drugs Feeling Yourself
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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
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
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Escape Possible Prison Yourself
If after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Friendship Need Presence Togetherness Yourself
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Cat Growth Myself People Preference
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
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Future Leak Present Yourself
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Difficult One Liner Question Simplicity

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