We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
William S. Gilbert
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T.K. NALIAKA We politely argued our case, but we lost.
BARRY KERN You have to handle it politely, ... Don't be rude.
HILKA KLINKENBERG Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
STEVEN BRUST Negative.
"Mouth closed, politely.
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SAYED KASHUA Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to...
JOHN SCOFIELD But if that person has nothing to fear, nothing to hide, and is just being approached politely, that...
MICHAEL ROACH It's, like, bigots want to embrace me, and I politely take their arms from around my neck. I don...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Did you know that smiling politely burns up the same amount of calories as speaking your mind.
COLSON WHITEHEAD Most thoughtful,"...[he said] politely. This cheerfulness was ambiguous, Had she determined to ignor...
TOM HOLT My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle...
BETTY FORD Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.
TAMORA PIERCE The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
ATWELL Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stra...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
HANSIKA MOTWANI It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But viol...
EDWARD BOND The winds of fortune tend to favour the sails of those who politely yell out to it, 'Nice to meet yo...
NABIL SABIO AZADI It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or eq...
VIGGO MORTENSEN He has always been politely indifferent. But what's the Chinese word that means indifferent because ...
AMY TAN My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off ...
BETTY FORD It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE Under the auspices of the (International Polar Year), to go out and prospect for fossil fuels, to pu...
SAMANTHA SMITH I understand they're trying to preserve heritage. I have a lot of minority customers, and I politely...
ZACH DOULAVERIS If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened bef...
JOHANN MOST The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its expone...
JOHANN MOST If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in t...
JOHANN MOST Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
JOHANN MOST Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists beca...
JOHANN MOST Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
JOHANN MOST Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself...
JOHANN MOST I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.&...
DONNY MOST It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - '...
JOHANN MOST It should be noted that these patients were all quite motivated to try this product. Facial plastic ...
SAM MOST As set forth by theologians, the idea of "God" is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and ...
JOHANN MOST The more man clings to religion, the more he believes. The more he believes, the less he knows. The ...
JOHANN MOST 'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to ...
JOHANN MOST It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'volu...
JOHANN MOST The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se...
JOHANN MOST A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited t...
JOHANN MOST Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the relig...
JOHANN MOST He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a r...
JOHANN MOST The demand for facial plastic surgical procedures has increased steadily over the past decade. But a...
SAM MOST Your conversations are the beginning of your connections; be careful of your communications. Talk po...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suff...
MARIA BAMFORD Chihuly wanted to open the exhibition in August, but we politely explained that was not a good idea ...
MARK MAUNDER Our security staff will be monitoring entrances, but all of our employees have been trained in how t...
CATHY BOWERS Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when y...
NATHAN FILER We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The most introspective of hearts tends to be the most sentimental. We cling to the smallest moments ...
SHANNON L. ALDER Although Thales politely left the door open to a subsequent deal with EADS, which could bring Thales...
DEUTSCHE BANK We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN The government's failure to act is increasingly frustrating, to put it politely. I am beginning to f...
CHRIS BOWDEN The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falli...
JAMIE MCGUIRE Just get used to the thing you fear & the thing you fear will soon become the thing you love most.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Do what you fear most and you control fear.
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DAN WACKERMAN What you fear most of all is-fear.
J.K. ROWLING Face what you fear most and conquer fear.
ROB MCBRIDE When we get to the track, we're basically turned loose to the masses. And you'd better be willing to...
DARRELL WALTRIP It is difficult to have faith when our hearts are consumed by fear, but it is when we are afraid tha...
A.A. FRIAS Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world...
SAMUEL BECKETT You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most d...
OSHO What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
TIMOTHY FERRISS Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the mos...
ARIANA GRANDE What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...
J.K. ROWLING William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN History never repeats itself ,as most people fear. People usually repeat history.
DIVINE CHIKOBVU I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usua...
TIMOTHY FERRISS The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really...
OPRAH WINFREY We fear the thing we want the most.
ROBERT ANTHONY We fear the thing we want the most.
DR. ROBERT ANTHONY 'Sol Invictus' works like your basic FNM record: the sequencing is an artful job, hustling y...
GREG GUTFELD If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in the...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in the...
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in the...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
DAVID GARRICK Oh, but my stomach, she is like a waterbed covered in flannel. When I lie on my side in bed, my stom...
ANNE LAMOTT The family making this claim were constantly taking pictures of me. And I politely asked them to sto...
DREW BARRYMORE It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more bi...
STANLEY SCHMIDT I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into...
ROBERT WEBB Write about the emotions you fear the most.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
MARK TWAIN Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot...
MAO TSE-TUNG Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
BRENE BROWN Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...
DONNA TARTT That suggests that what you fear most of all is — fear. Very wise, Harry.
J.K. ROWLING We asked them to help us police the holiday. If people started to turn it into a day for bargain sal...
LLOYD DAVIS If we can hang with them, then we can hang with most anybody else in the state. It is good to see th...
ANGELL FLOYD Hello," said Brannoc politely, despite his terrible hangover.
"What the hell are you?" demanded...
MARTIN MILLAR But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
KATHY ACKER Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until ...
STURGILL SIMPSON you are the light
that most men
will never deserve
R.H. SIN Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
OPRAH WINFREY Drop the fear. What you fear most, can be a repeated theme in your life.
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That extremely lovely thing,
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If your soul...
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And the mate of the Nancy brig,
And a bo'sun tight and a mi...
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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 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 And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!
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.
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WILLIAM GILBERT Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
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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...
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W. S. GILBERT Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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W. S. GILBERT You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.
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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.
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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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