William S. Burroughs Quotes

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

William S. Burroughs

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• Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• 'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Chance

• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Movies

• It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Director

• I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Husband

• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • City
  • Fashion
  • Year

• I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Period

• But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Drinking

• Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Listen
  • Open-minded

• It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Me
  • Learn

• I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Woman

• For me, just being published feels like success.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Success
  • Me
  • Like

• The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Great
  • Men
  • Power

• American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Up
  • Women
  • American

• It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy when I heard I did win because I was in London at the time, and we were doing a festival out there, and my manager was like, 'You just won an ACM.' And I was like, 'How? It's so early!'

  

  Maren Morris
  • Time
  • Crazy

• If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

  

  Elizabeth Peyton
  • Good
  • Art
  • Night

• I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Interesting

• Once you learn how to roller skate for 'Starlight Express,' it's a lifelong skill you have acquired.

  

  Jane Krakowski

• That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Soul
  • Literature

• I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love-that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love and sex is a western concept, a Christian concept. As to what falling in love means, I'm uncertain. Love, well, it means simply physical attraction and liking a person at the same time.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Fall

• It's morning when I go to sleep In the distant dawn a church bell rings Another day is coming on A baby's born, an old man dies Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye I leave my soul and just move on And wish that I was there to sing this song

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Song

• Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Mean
  • Alcohol
  • Weed