William S. Burroughs Quotes
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
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No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him...Watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet...When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
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She looked creepy/adorable.
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When I’m photographing I see life.
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.
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We can score on anybody. But we have to focus on defense. They were just outworking us. Everybody has to step up, period, for us to be a better team.
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
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Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.
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Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
