Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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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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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
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The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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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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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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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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The world is now a virus.
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Life is a vacation from two eternities.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
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