A wandering minstrel I - / A thing of shreds and patches.


William S. Gilbert

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Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most...
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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor...
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Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor...
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You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
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The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
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I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
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Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
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Hodor," said Hodor.
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You do what you love, what you need
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I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
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She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
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You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South surviv...
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If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no ...
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Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
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That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
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I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
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When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
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When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
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But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LOR...
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I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
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I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
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There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
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I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
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No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
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He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
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I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
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Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
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Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
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I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
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The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS...
The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
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Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
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It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
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كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
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The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
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This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge...
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Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
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Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
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Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mo...
ROBERT BURTON
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mos...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things pe...
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I think it was a good thing that Joanie and Chachi married.
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Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
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A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
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Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
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Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
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To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
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Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS
When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS
Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS
Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
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But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
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You know nothing, Jon Snow.
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Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Caffeine is a good thing.
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Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper ...
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It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
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I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.
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it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
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All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER
Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure.
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This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.
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Be yourself and people will like you.
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The best person I know is Myself.
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I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY
The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN
Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA
I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
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Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe...
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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
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Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing, "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."
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I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
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Bad language or abuse I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though "Bother it" I m...
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Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big, D.
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You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
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I've got to take under my wing, / Tra la, / A most unattractive old thing, / Tra la, / With a carica...
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Take a pair of sparkling eyes.
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I'm a greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man!
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I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pr...
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.
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He uses language that would make your hair curl.
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Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they we...
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But they couldn't chat together - they had not been introduced.
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I was a pale young curate then.
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He led his regiment from behind - / He found it less exciting.
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For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich, / Which is ...
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We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
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The mildest curate going.
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Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.
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Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
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And I always voted at my party's call, / And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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Take my counsel, happy man; / Act upon it, if you can!
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I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
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The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.
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Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boil...
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-- To let the punishment fit the crime.
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Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
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In enterprise of martial kind / When there was any fighting, / He led his reg'ment from behind / He ...
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Things are seldom what they seem.
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On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
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Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
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And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, / Did nothing in particular, / And did it very well.
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I...
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When I first put this uniform on.
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A source of innocent merriment.
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She may very well pass for forty-three / In the dusk with a light behind her!
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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
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So I fell in love with a rich attorney's / Elderly ugly daughter.
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A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor!
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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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Dukes were three a penny.
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Three little maids who, all unwary, / Come from a ladies' seminary.
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I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable ...
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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
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The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own...
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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You know a real friend?
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Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
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A functioning police state needs no police.
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I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.
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A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
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An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
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Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
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What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies a...
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller.
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I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself see...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked i...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implemen...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
WILLIAM S. PALEY
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other,...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectua...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he se...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The Pusher always gets it all back.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rise...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk,...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple st...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Kindness, Courtesy, Courage, and a Commitment to Academic Excellence" "But if everything goes wrong,...
WILLIAM S. HUNTER
In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of so...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very u...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. N...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different an...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
This memorial is more than a remembrance, it's also a reminder that women in the military's service ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
We will not win the war on terror through military action. The sharing of information and intelligen...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a d...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he us...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The threat of terrorism taking place on American soil is real, with chemical, biological, indeed, as...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
A Nazi initiation into the upper reaches of the SS was to gouge out the eye of a pet cat after feedi...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want...
WILLIAM S. WILSON
When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. A...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS