If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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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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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
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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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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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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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Open your mind and let the pictures out
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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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’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
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