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Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.


William S. Burroughs

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A student from the University of Washington has sold his soul on eBay for $400.
JAY LENO He, who sold his soul to the devil for an earthly possession, has bargained for eternal damnation
ETC WANYANWU This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld h...
JACQUES VERGES Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Maril...
NICHOLAS SAMSTAG I was his “little girl with the William Burroughs mind,” his “secret fairy,” “female Frank...
JALINA MHYANA It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the...
LEWIS MUMFORD I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of...
GEORGE A. MOORE Submission is not about what you dominant does TO you...it's about what you do FOR your dominant.
RIKA For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall...
BIBLE The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.
MENANDER The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from hi...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Hussein has... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his...
MADELINE ALBRIGHT Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cr...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the f...
WILLIAM BLAKE The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many thin...
PAULO COELHO Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
ARTHUR MILLER Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted...
ERIK QUALMAN Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
THOMAS MERTON We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-...
DAVID SHIELDS William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t...
PETER SELLEY White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are...
BARTON GELLMAN Weapons of mass destruction are the greatest threat to life on earth. Biological weapons are often c...
WILLIAM SHAWCROSS It's time for honest language. When a man has sex with a frightened, beaten and intimidated woman th...
DENIS MACSHANE Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that u...
ALBERT J. NOCK The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
the people unders...
KEDAR JOSHI For though his body's under hatches, His soul has gone aloft.
CHARLES DIBDIN would seem as though language is the only predestination of man, and that he is created to bring it ...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
HOSEA BALLOU Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroy...
JAMES ALLEN You have to think his dominance is back,
JEFF SLUMAN A soul sold is much worse than slavery.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER The man, most man,
Works best for men, and, if most men indeed,
He gets his manhood plainest f...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING He has strangled His language in his tears.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The European Parliament has sold itself cheaply...What we now have is that we have given the tools t...
ALEXANDER ALVARO With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wi...
EUGENE ORMANDY Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language y...
FRANK HERBERT Ms Merkel has not sold her soul. The reform of the health insurance scheme next year will show that,
ANGELA MERKEL No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
SALLUST The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself...
JAMES BALDWIN The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
ROBERT BOLT Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
SIMPSONS Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
LILY TOMLIN Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lexie, I practically sold my soul to get where I am today. I’m a selfish bastard … and you …�...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one bo...
ROBERT WILSON Better predictive tools will reduce the uncertainties involved in defeating very hard targets and th...
IRENE SMITH For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
BIBLE If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almos...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Life's irony;The trader knows that for sure,one day all his goods shall eventually be sold,but the s...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The o...
SAINT IGNATIUS A student from the University of Washington has sold his soul on eBay for $400. He's a law student, ...
JAY LENO This man has no soul; he has no conscience.
ROSEMARY DILLARD Sultan Beyazid considered his father's art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.
STEPHEN KINZER I'd sold my soul to get out of detention.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word....
CHRISTOPHER FRY Do not be troubled for a language,cultivate your soul and she will show herself
EUGENE DELACROIX Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
EUGENE DELACROIX For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
BIBLE David Foster Wallace, in my opinion, is one of the greatest writers we've ever had, certainly in...
JOHN KRASINSKI We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife...
JOSEPH ROUX We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife...
JOSEPH ROUX There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected throu...
YOUSUF KARSH Every man dies. Not every man truly lives." Sir William Wallace
AMANDA M. THRASHER A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no mo...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Dominance is only for GOD.
SYED ISLAM That man has no soul, no conscience.
ROSEMARY DILLARD The only sign of life Ryan has shown in three days is when his brother William kissed him and a tear...
JO BROWN Through his powers of intellect, articulate language has been evolved; and on this his wonderful adv...
CHARLES DARWIN From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country...
AL GORE If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his ...
NELSON MANDELA Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just a...
DAVID MITCHELL Mr. Quinn has failed to meet his responsibility to support his child, and that has consequences, ......
JENNIFER GRANHOLM Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
JOHN RUSKIN Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.
ANNE ROBINSON The destiny of man is in his own soul
HERODOTUS The soul of this man is in his clothes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
JESUS CHRIST Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, i...
C.G. JUNG Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that be...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes o...
LAIRD BARRON At the Zayed Summit, His Majesty urged executing this project in the shortest period of time and pro...
SHAIKH AHMED Seldom has a politician left public office with more self-generated fanfare than Sen. William S. Coh...
TUCKER CARLSON Burroughs was a very political writer.
KATHY ACKER A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
PROVERB A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
SPANISH PROVERB A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of his tools.
UNKNOWN Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its d...
SUZY KASSEM No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlig...
MARCUS AURELIUS

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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, becaus...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The Pusher always gets it all back.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of so...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS (1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he us...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS NAKED Lunch -- a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I was new in the game and like all young thieves thought I had a license to steal. It didn't last.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and to...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that this life is sort of a penal colony. People have goofed or we wouldn't be here.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit w...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL think...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner sp...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of fink...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people...
WILLIAM S BURROUGHS Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any str...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the fr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Exterminate all rational thought
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?

His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." Th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway said:
'It don't come anymore.'
So where did it go?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS