I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction. - William S. Burroughs

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There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

William S. Burroughs

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

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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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Joan Miro

A modeled form is less striking than one which is not. Modeling prevents shock and limits movement to the visual depth. Without modeling or chiaroscuro depth is limitless: movement can stretch to infinity.

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Simone Weil

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

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Reinhard Bonnke

Nigeria has its problems, nobody denies that, but there is a surge of spiritual, I would say, Christian dynamics that are awesome.

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Samuel Johnson

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Teresa of Avila

The more we see that any action springs not from the motive of obedience, the more evident is it that it is a temptation of the enemy; for when God sends an inspiration, the very first effect of it is to infuse a spirit of docility.

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