William S. Burroughs Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Charles is life itself - pure life, force, like sunlight - and it is for this that I married him and this that holds me to him - caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and whatever he happens to be involved in.
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Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.
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Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.
