And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!
William S. Gilbert
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KELLY JONES I suppose there's no good answer to that, Danny. I wish there was. But if you take the wrong, path, ...
INARA SCOTT When you have the right, doesn't mean that you are right.
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JOHN STEINBECK What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. A...
JEANNE DUPRAU Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There is nothing like right or wrong question or answer. A question may be right for someone and wro...
ANUJ SOMANY But you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just becau...
JIM BUTCHER There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist... If he swings, it will be fr...
JONATHAN TURLEY Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind i...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.
BARBARA ELSE For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to m...
KATHERINE EWELL Why do you borrow such sorrows when they are far away, and I am right here?
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the fem...
MIKE EPPS You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl," said Gilbert lazily. "I won't have you flying away from ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
MARIA EDGEWORTH Come when you're called And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you And you'll never be chid
MARIA EDGEWORTH Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
ARTHUR GODFREY What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do...
MARK TWAIN It is better to be wrong (fail) in doing the right thing than to be right (successful) in doing the ...
JAIME CONTRERAS But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as ...
JOHN LANCHESTER Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Sometimes you can't resolve that you are happy or sad and that's what I am experiencing right at onc...
MAYANK KUMAR LOUTERIYA Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosq...
KABIR Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU?
U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!
U.G. KRISHNAMURTI So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a ca...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Right and wrong is a matter of perspective.
GEMEI I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.
MARY MACLANE Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.
VANESSA RAY It is not right if I am wrong. But if I am young, and right, what does my age matter?
SOPHOCLES Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right am...
IAN DOESCHER I am happiest now. There's nothing like running out of time to make you realise you're in th...
HOWARD JACOBSON As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now...
CHRISTIAN SLATER My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
WILLIAM SHATNER I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rul...
MIKE SINGLETARY Jesus Christ. This is what sin feels like," he rasped. "Wrong and right, at the same time. Life and ...
TESSA BAILEY I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rul...
CECELIA AHERN Old enough to know its wrong, Young enough to do it anyway!
ANTONIA VEGA More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way.
GLEN COOK ...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pai...
LEMONY SNICKET Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
MARIA EDGEWORTH In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainl...
LIONEL SHRIVER I'm going to get a job, I'm broke. Right now I couldn't buy spats for a hummingbird.
ROBERT BLAKE The Right of property is the guardian of every other Right, and to deprive the people of this, is in...
ARTHUR LEE Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose...
JAMES MADISON She is plain but on the stage she looks all right.
JESSICA TANDY The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
PATRICK HENRY It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiti...
BRITTNEY RYAN The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right sho...
MARIA EDGEWORTH Look behind you now.
Do you feel in your heart a slight hastening of its beat, and a powerful s...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Fierce for the right, he bore his part in strife with many a valiant foe; but laughter winged his po...
WILLIAM WINTERS I am now officially ordained. Yep, that's right - Reverend Tori Spelling!
TORI SPELLING You are right, I am too good to be for real.
But I am even more awesome to be your reality
HENNA SOHAIL I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I am ticked right off. I am disgusted and like everyone else outraged.
JULIAN FANTINO It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really st...
VIN DIESEL To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES Right now, I know everything and I am happy I am Russian. And I am happy to be from Russia.
EVGENI PLUSHENKO I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
PAT PAULSEN When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right en...
CONOR MCGREGOR “I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.”
LOUISE L. HAY I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.
LOUISE L. HAY Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND Gilbert tried to reason with the smoke hound. “I am a frog,” he explained. “You are a puff of ...
ADAM JAY EPSTEIN I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choos...
ANDREW CUOMO If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
RICK SPRINGFIELD War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to �...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.
HOMARO CANTU I am the right.
GEORGE W. BUSH You're not right in the head, and nor am I, and this is why....this is why I like you.
MORRISSEY Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, bu...
ALI IBN ABI TALIB I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do ...
MIKE SINGLETARY If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY You may look right through me, but I am not invisible!
CRISTABEL MICHAELS I will eternally give thanks for those women who essentially said, ‘Yes, I see you. And I love you...
MERYN G. CALLANDER Easy is right. Begin right, and you will be easy. Continue easy and you are right... The right way t...
CHUANG TZU I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too st...
NATASHA HENSTRIDGE There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready...
C. JOYBELL C. What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Wh...
NICOLE KRAUSS If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right,...
PHILIP K. DICK I love the gray area between right and wrong.
DAN BROWN I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
CURT SCHILLING I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you...
LEIF GARRETT Remember William Cooper, he fought hard for what was right and paid the ultimate price. Let us never...
ENRIQUE VEGA Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
HORACE MANN And all the young ladies said that a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties ...
MARIA EDGEWORTH Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made...
ROBERT BLAKE Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR. There is no honor in cruelty.
JOCELYN MURRAY Self discipline is a right that no one can wrong except yourself.
TURYASINGURA NELSON DERRICK They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck.
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS Always do the right and be the right,Whatever the circumstances.
NEWPOSTCARD he may be able to say something good in the weeks ahead, but at least as it appears right now, that ...
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WILLIAM S. GILBERT Then they began to sing
That extremely lovely thing,
"Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I always voted at my party's call,
And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT As innocent as a new-laid egg.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Now landsmen all, whoever you may be,
If you want to rise to the top of the tree,
If your soul...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold
And the mate of the Nancy brig,
And a bo'sun tight and a mi...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT For she is such a smart little craft,
Such a neat little, sweet little craft--
Such a bright l...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Bad language or abuse
I never, never use,
Whatever the emergency;
Though "Bother it" I m...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Though "Bother it" I may
Occasionally say,
I never never use a big, big, D.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Oh! to be wafted away
From this black Aceldama of sorrow,
Where the dust of an earthy to-day
...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I've got to take under my wing, / Tra la, / A most unattractive old thing, / Tra la, / With a carica...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Take a pair of sparkling eyes.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I'm a greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pr...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT He uses language that would make your hair curl.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they we...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT But they couldn't chat together - they had not been introduced.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I was a pale young curate then.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT He led his regiment from behind - / He found it less exciting.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT For you dream you are crossing the Channel, and tossing about in a steamer from Harwich, / Which is ...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The mildest curate going.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT And I always voted at my party's call, / And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Take my counsel, happy man; / Act upon it, if you can!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something
humorous but lingering--with either boil...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT In enterprise of martial kind / When there was any fighting, / He led his reg'ment from behind / He ...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The House of Peers, throughout the war, / Did nothing in particular, / And did it very well.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT When I first put this uniform on.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT A source of innocent merriment.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT She may very well pass for forty-three / In the dusk with a light behind her!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bor...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular and well foreseen intervals, always seems to take...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT So I fell in love with a rich attorney's / Elderly ugly daughter.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT I often think it's comical / How Nature always does contrive / That every boy and every gal, / That'...
WILLIAM S. GILBERT A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Life is a joke that's just begun.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Dukes were three a penny.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Three little maids who, all unwary, / Come from a ladies' seminary.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Man is nature's sole mistake.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT A wandering minstrel I - / A thing of shreds and patches.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and s...
WILLIAM GILBERT He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
WILLIAM GILBERT In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are ob...
WILLIAM GILBERT Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
W. S. GILBERT My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
W. S. GILBERT In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind -- he fo...
W. S. GILBERT No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W. S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem.
W. S. GILBERT I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable ...
W. S. GILBERT It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
W. S. GILBERT The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own...
W. S. GILBERT Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they we...
W. S. GILBERT I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. GILBERT Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
W. S. GILBERT You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.
W. S. GILBERT I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descen...
W. S. GILBERT You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.
W. S. GILBERT My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
W. S. GILBERT You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself-and how little I deserve it.
W. S. GILBERT When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
W. S. GILBERT Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
W. S. GILBERT No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W. S. GILBERT Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and uncon...
W. S. GILBERT If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stum...
W. S. GILBERT Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are fu...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling b...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around t...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wip...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. T...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas. . . a cosmonaut of inner spa...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A functioning police state needs no police.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been r...
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 Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most ef...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will craw...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my g...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to w...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they h...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too pr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, becaus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be don...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be d...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in sil...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Language is a virus from outer space.
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 Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies a...
WILLIAM S. PALEY Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 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...
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