Shooting is my principal pastime. - William S. Burroughs

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What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

William S. Burroughs

Shooting is my principal pastime.

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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.

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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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What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

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. . . a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

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We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit. . and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.

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Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.

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No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship. . . Everything has its time. And everything ends.

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