William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
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Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
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I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.
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In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.
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This is the time of year you wait for, and we're right there. Guys who have never been in the playoffs before will feel that pressure. We're approaching the finish line of an 82-game season. It now goes from a marathon to a sprint, and when you're bunched up with other teams like we are, it's not talent that will get you there, but commitment.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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This was puzzling, as the standard textbook of psychiatry at the time stated that incest was extremely rare in the United States, occurring about once in every million women.8 Given that there were then only about one hundred million women living in the United States, I wondered how forty seven, almost half of them, had found their way to my office in the basement of the hospital. Furthermore, the textbook said, “There is little agreement about the role of father-daughter incest as a source of serious subsequent psychopathology.” My patients with incest histories were hardly free of “subsequent psychopathology”—they were profoundly depressed, confused, and often engaged in bizarrely self-harmful behaviors, such as cutting themselves with razor blades. The textbook went on to practically endorse incest, explaining that “such incestuous activity diminishes the subject’s chance of psychosis and allows for a better adjustment to the external world.
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We should exterminate all rational thought.
