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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When you have lived the life I've lived, when you've loved and suffered, and been madly happy and desperately sad -- well, that's when you realize you'll never be able to set it all down. Maybe you'd rather die first.
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It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.
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To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.
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I think we will open a portion of the Alaskan wildlife refuge (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) to drilling, ... And we absolutely must address the need for additional refining capacity.
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I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.
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In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
