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If you think you can do it, you can. — John Burroughs

I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live. — William S. Burroughs

My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. — William S. Burroughs

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child. — Augusten Burroughs

How could something have no end, and if it had no end exactly where did it leave us? — Augusten Burroughs

Here lies the bottom and root of all contentment, when there is an evenness and proportion between our hearts and our circumstances. — Jeremiah Burroughs

Melancholy Baby dies from an overdose of time — William S. Burroughs

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color. — William S. Burroughs

It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others. — Dillon Burroughs

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then? — Augusten Burroughs

When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire? — Jeremiah Burroughs

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. — William S. Burroughs

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously. — Dillon Burroughs

I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph. — Augusten Burroughs

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes. — William S. Burroughs

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future. — William S. Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ. — Dillon Burroughs

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather. — John Burroughs

I am a fighting man, not a scientist. Here, — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Change the world today. Start with the next person you meet. — Dillon Burroughs

P38- little tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny lord greystoke and which meant white skin — Edgar Rice Burroughs

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak. — William S. Burroughs

God does not remove us from all harm; He uses harm to move us close to Him. — Dillon Burroughs

God doesn't call us to fix every problem or to please every person; He calls us to do what we can. — Dillon Burroughs

You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it. — Dillon Burroughs

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit. — William S. Burroughs

I realized I'd only seen him at night in dim, flattering restaurant lighting. The sun was not his friend. — Augusten Burroughs

P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy. — William S. Burroughs

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant. — William S. Burroughs

the countless unnamed jewels of Mars, — Edgar Rice Burroughs

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade — Augusten Burroughs

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. — John Burroughs

the bridesmaid's hand in his, "Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding." The — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust. — William S. Burroughs

She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you hate life, you haven't seen enough of it. If you hate your life, it's because your life is too small and doesn't fit you. — Augusten Burroughs

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too. — Augusten Burroughs

around here." She changed the subject and rose to her feet. "And — Debra Burroughs

You're both mother fuckers. She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest. — William S. Burroughs

The face of 'evil' is always the face of total need. — William S. Burroughs

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon
the beauty and the wonder of the world. — John Burroughs

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. — William S. Burroughs

that the strong beams of the sun of prosperity upon many men make them to be leprous. — Jeremiah Burroughs

The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat. — Augusten Burroughs

Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by — Edgar Rice Burroughs

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream? — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself. — Augusten Burroughs

You must hang onto the scraps of the bucking moment as if your sanity and life depended on it - because actually they do. — Augusten Burroughs

The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more. — Dillon Burroughs

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs

His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade. — Augusten Burroughs

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes. — Augusten Burroughs

Mohammed? Are you kidding? He was dreamed up by the Mecca Chamber of Commerce. — William S. Burroughs

In spouse, I mostly hear "S.mouse," the name of Chris Lilley's blackface teenage rapper in Angry Boys. And — Augusten Burroughs

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture. — John Burroughs

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. — William S. Burroughs

Then, again, how annoying to be told it is only five miles to the next place when it is really eight or ten! — John Burroughs

But I am not here ironically; I am here sincerely. — Augusten Burroughs

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. — William S. Burroughs

NOTHING happens by coincidence. — William S. Burroughs

All you cat lovers, remember all the millions of cats mewling through the world's rooms lay all their hopes and trust in you. — William S. Burroughs

The name's Clem Williamson Snide. I am a private asshole. — William S. Burroughs

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. — William S. Burroughs

To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Thuvia of Ptarth was having difficulty in determining the exact status of the Prince of Helium in her heart. She — Edgar Rice Burroughs

If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart. — John Burroughs

Being an unhappy person does not mean you must be sad or dark. You can be interested instead of happy. You can be fascinated instead of happy. — Augusten Burroughs

There are times in life when logic and reason and probability must be recognized, but then ignored. — Augusten Burroughs

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image. — William S. Burroughs

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
- pg. 41 — William S. Burroughs

In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen — William S. Burroughs

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. — Augusten Burroughs

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk. — William S. Burroughs

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

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. — William S. Burroughs

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
— William S. Burroughs

It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The figure had emerged from a lightless region where everything we have been taught, all the conventional feelings, do not apply. — William S. Burroughs

It is contrary to the worship that is in contentedness. — Jeremiah Burroughs

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The male gender remembers only the things that entertain them. — Dante Burroughs

I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show. — Augusten Burroughs

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw. — Michael Moorcock

Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians. — John Burroughs

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs

Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most. — Dillon Burroughs

I should at least die as I had lived - fighting. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative — John Burroughs

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less. — Dillon Burroughs

Loss creates a greater overall surface area within a person. You expand as a result of it. Though it may very well feel like the opposite. — Augusten Burroughs

P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work. — Dillon Burroughs

If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong. — Dillon Burroughs

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer. — William S. Burroughs

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] — Augusten Burroughs