"There is no right or wrong reading of……" — Rick Moody
"There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs commercial is not the issue."
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41 Quotes by Rick Moody
Rick Moody has 41 quotes on this site.
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I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all…
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I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
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There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.
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God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?
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I love comic books and always did as a kid.
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I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
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I judged about a zillion awards this year so Ive been reading a lot of books that just came out.
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The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
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I turned forty, and Im finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.
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I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about…
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It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer…
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More Burroughs Quotes
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one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in…
— William S. Burroughs
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For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's…
— Gale Harold
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With ‘Avatar,’ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys’ adventure movie, something in the Edgar…
— James Cameron
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Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs…
— Truman Capote
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Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.
— William S. Burroughs
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John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites…
— Emma Goldman
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As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able…
— Ozzie Smith
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Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.
— Unknown Author
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I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester…
— Kate Simon
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Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much…
— Janet Maslin
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Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime…
— Laird Barron
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American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins…
— Jeff Olson
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