

“Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language together.”
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“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

“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.”
― Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts
― Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts
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