Burroughs Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burroughs Real Ulysses Writing
Real talers have the same existence that the imagined gods have. Has a real taler any existence except in the imagination... — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one. — Parvathy Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...) — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
When you play a person who exists in real life, it is different than when you play fiction. — Joanna Kulig Copy Share Image
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction. — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it. It seems… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was completely fictionalising the people who were then the great celebrities of English. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to list its own directory. So I tried some test problems on it. It insisted that 2 + 2 = 3.99999999999999999999999… When I tried to get it to admit that 4 = 2 + 2, it became angry and claimed that 4 = 3.141592653589793238462643383279... So I gave up.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig, farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard. Bubbly, thick, stagnant sound. A sound you could smell. This man worked for the carnival,you dig? And to start with it was like a novelty… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate staying where… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space." — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“What's with the serum?" I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if… — Anonymous Copy Share
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had engaged in as a participant, but to which I had, nevertheless, grown inexplicably irrelevant. But the elements of this phenomenon are now quickly dissolving from memory and being replaced by reverse-engineered Random Access actualizations of junk code/DNA consciousness,… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share
People talk about this often in the art world. The press releases have reached a level of absurdity and creativity - creative absurdity -… — David Salle Copy Share Image
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