William S. Burroughs Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
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The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.
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Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.
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The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.
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Modern man has lost the option of silence.
