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. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
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Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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Too perfect to be sexually attractive.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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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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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
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There are no innocent bystanders.
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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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