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. BURROUGHSBlack magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
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When you stop growing you start dying.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
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There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
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By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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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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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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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
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There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
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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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