William S. Burroughs Quotes
I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.
Quotes to Explore
-
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
-
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
-
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
-
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
-
And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
-
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
-
Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
-
I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
-
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
-
I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
-
The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
-
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
-
I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
-
Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
-
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
-
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
-
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
-
Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
-
We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis.
-
Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
-
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
-
How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.
-
If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live.
-
I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.
