William S. Burroughs Quotes
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
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Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies
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If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
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Shawty Imma only tell you this once, you the illest And for your loving Imma die hard like Bruce Willis
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Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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"We die," she said, "we die together. That's the deal."
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An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.
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I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.
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You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
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If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.
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I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.
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Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
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We can turn the food in our life from being a temptation or a regret to something we guiltlessly enjoy. We can move from mindless overeating to mindless better eating.
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Life, as I came to know it, revolved round feeding the horses, preparing them for work and making the implements they were to haul. Horses pulled wagons; they hauled the wool and the wheat and the merchandise. They had to be shod, and the harness and other equipment kept in repair.
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Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.
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Even while you are in doubt, there will be an answer you will arrive to. Even while you are in pain, your happiness will be waiting.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
