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I’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

William S. Burroughs

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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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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.
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Creativity Eat Machine Money Quality Spontaneous Youth
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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Crowd Innocent
If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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Alive Life Surprise 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.
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Cat Growth Myself People Preference
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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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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Attractive Perfection Sexuality
I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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Day Journey Myself Oneself Return
(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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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Black Effective Magic Operate
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Existence Yourself

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