William Seward Burroughs Famous Quotes
"Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client."
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical."
"So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
William Seward Burroughs Quotations
"Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words."
Chuangtzu
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time."
Martha Stewart
"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world."
Isodore Duncan
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.
Ronald Reagan
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships."
George Bernard Shaw
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
Cherie CarterScott