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William S. Burroughs Quotes

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

William S. Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

Topics

Evil Face Need Always Total

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

History Trying Worth Choose Know

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

Amanda Lindhout

Life Live Sky Mind Book Body

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

Family Love God Sleep Child World

My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very glamorous. When he first met my mum, he swept her off into this big, social world.

Father World End First Glamorous

You may be basing a portion of your self-worth on your bank account without even realizing it. Try to pinpoint the activities and qualities that, free of charge, fulfill you.

Free You Self-Worth Try Bank May

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

Jonathan Coleman

White Play Privilege Race Necessary

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

Work Myself Me Feel Year New

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.

Go Going Show Close Did Very

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.

Family Art College Painting Artist

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

Great Goal Human Human Being Being

I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist.

Myself Political Revolutionary

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

Work Lights Go Meet Photograph Take

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