William S. Burroughs Quotes
If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
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A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
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I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?
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If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
