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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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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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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I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?
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It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.
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You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.
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If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
