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People Quotes by William S. Burroughs
- Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
- There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
- Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
- Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going…
- After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want…
- After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.
- The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain…
- No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of…
- I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people…
- One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know. . . . Once…
- Time is what death needs to grow people in.
- I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to…
- Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that…
- People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The…
- Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ...…
- The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment;…
- 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…
- There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true…
- The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People,…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — 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
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle