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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."
"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"
"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."
"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"
"I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither."
"A Christian's mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community."
"My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it."
"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."
"He who says that someone isn't himself is a victim of statistics."
Explore more quotes by 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, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live."
"The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible."
"To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know."
"May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the front room where the kittens are kept, Calico Jane is nursing one black kitten. I pick up my Tourister. It seems heavy. I look inside and there are her other four kittens."Take care of my babies. Take them with you wherever you go."
"It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hours in the precinct jail. It was a clear bright day, but there was warmth in the sun. Danny shivered with an inner cold. He turned up the collar of his worn, greasy black overcoat. This beat benny wouldn't pawn for a deuce, he thought."
"All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someone else's nose to prove they had been somewhere or done something. And I thought someday everyone in America will suddenly jump up and say, 'I don't take any shit!' and start pushing and cursing and clawing at the man next to him."
"My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people, which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company."
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