William S. Burroughs Quotes

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

William S. Burroughs

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• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Day
  • Start
  • Television

• I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.

  

  Rain
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Best

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Most
  • Partnership

• Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Passion
  • Christmas
  • White

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Single
  • Encouraging

• More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Analysis
  • Suffered
  • He

• What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • May
  • Reality
  • Your

• With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.

  

  Larry King
  • Think
  • You
  • Internet

• I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Speak
  • Will
  • Only

• Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

  

  Tertullian
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Conception

• the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

  

  Katharine Tynan
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Lying

• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Humor

• For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Universe
  • Magic
  • Accidents