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Life Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
- Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -…
- No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
- It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent…
- The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening…
- I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger…
- Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And…
- Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
- To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I…
- If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic…
- For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle