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
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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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.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
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With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
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I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.
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Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.
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There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.
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in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
