William S. Burroughs Quotes
To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
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Amazon.com isn't the same as going down an aisle. The same as record stores. You'll go for Billie Holiday, and you buy Gustav Mahler as you're going out the door.
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.
