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.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBlack magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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The world is now a virus.
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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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.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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