William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.
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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.
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Physical money, whether it's checks or cash or credit card, are digitizing in front of us.
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If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
