The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they … - William S. Burroughs

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The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

William S. Burroughs

The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction.

Addiction, Believe, Doe, Narcotics, Nonsense

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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

Causes, Connection, Mean, Pain, Writing

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time. . . and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Faces, Reality, Refuse, Time, Way

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

Art, Make, Mean, Originally, Paintings, Writing

There are no innocent bystanders.

Bystanders, Innocent

Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

Christian, Firsts, Tell, War, Wars, Wrong

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Jackie McLean

I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way through. How are you going to know what's new to play, if you haven't listened to everything that's old?'

Important, Know, Learn, Listened, Music, Play

Charles Darwin

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

Faculties, Justice, Mind, Moral, Past, Powers

Karl Rove

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

Antiwar, Cindy, Faces, Movement, Rally, Real

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

Back, Let, People, Trying, Way

Louise Bogan