"Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will."

-- William S. Burroughs

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“I don't like people feeling like they've been cheated out of their money, and I too have been caught in the back of floor shows, only to inspect the backs of necks and the mudded sounds pushing though bodies.”
“Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.”
“What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.”
“The actual assertion that the Census Bureau could behave in such a way as to tilt things one way or the other way in the partisan sense, is, on the face of it, a silly charge. It's the same Census Bureau that's considered to be incompetent by some people, and then some of the same people are saying that this incompetent agency is so clever and so Machiavellian that it can design a census for partisan reasons.”

Source : "Census, Uncensored". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2009.
“I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.”

Source : "His Last Words", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 388-90, 1922.
“You can see the relief on Falcao's shoulders.”
“Life is what you do while you're waiting to die... Life is how the time goes by”

Source : "I Love Making Deals". "I Am American Business" Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.
“What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."”

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