William S. Burroughs Quotes

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

William S. Burroughs

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• Mean
• Missing
• Absence

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
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• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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• I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.

  

  Laura Fraser
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• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
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• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
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• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
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• Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
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• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.

  

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• How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

  

  Warren Bennis
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• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
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• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
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• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  

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• I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  

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• Let me tell you that I love the United States.

  

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• Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

  

  Jason Silva
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• You should not starve yourself with stupid diets, which I don't believe in anyway.

  

  Anna Netrebko
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• Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.

  

  Harold Hamm
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• I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.

  

  Aidan Gillen
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• Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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  • Furies

• I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Mean