William S. Burroughs Quotes

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Friendship

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Love
  • Perfect

• I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • May
  • Remember

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
  • Great
  • Remember
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• I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Horror

• As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Care

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Look

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I was very young during 'Chachi 420' and don't remember much now.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Remember
  • Young
  • Now

• I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Remember
  • Star
  • Sunset

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fish

• I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Perfect
  • Blue

• I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Remember
  • American
  • Air

• I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Perfect

• Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, 'Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.' But what you're really doing is not doing your work. You're putting off showing up and being visible because then you're going to be judged, and it might suck.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

  

  Jeff Gannon
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Job

• Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Lonely
  • Sleeping

• Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Independence
  • Distinction

• The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moved