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While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world events, isolated and tucked safely away in a continental cocoon.


William S. Cohen

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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 My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.
WILLIAM S. HART I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I got my money's worth!
WILLIAM S. HUNTER Kindness, Courtesy, Courage, and a Commitment to Academic Excellence
WILLIAM S. HUNTER England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 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 I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether t...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to t...
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 Junkies have no interest in sex and they have no interest in other people except as suppliers of jun...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns f...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no sec...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Things are seldom what they seem.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in dreary boredom. Make no mistake; all intellectuals ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.
WILLIAM S. PALEY Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT NAKED Lunch -- a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The only possible ETHIC is to do what one wants to do.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks fo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS 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 In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I was new in the game and like all young thieves thought I had a license to steal. It didn't last.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS When I first put this uniform on.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT