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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I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.
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Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
