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. BURROUGHSThe face of evil is always the face of total need.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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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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If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
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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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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
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You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
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Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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