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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. William Godwin
Tyranny Revolution Indignation Itself Pregnant
Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it. William Godwin
Government Injustice Has-Been Embody Suppress Been Perpetuate Effect Intended
Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide. William Godwin
Man Law Valuable Made Nation Ought Way One-Way Most Sure Decide Wherever Interests Require Should
Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible. William Godwin
Love Impossible Power Difficulties Other Would Would-Be Obstacles Effects Any Conquers
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources. William Least Heat-Moon
Thoughts Free Sense Properly Restriction Beware Come Remote Most Sources Turned Night
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. William S. Burroughs
Me Ignorance Cats Saved Relationships Deadly Pervasive
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. William S. Burroughs
Good You Quality Meal Good Meal More Fake Than Any
Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form. William S. Burroughs
You Word Will Universe Changes Virus Pretty Only Alteration Repeat Effected Up Scramble Same The Only Thing Form Cut Themselves Original Thing Copies Copy
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. William S. Burroughs
National Alcohol Other Our Horror Tend Any Regard Use Special
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. William S. Burroughs
Knowledge Relative Superficial Only Going Your
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. William S. Burroughs
Happiness You Happy Virtue Simply Function By-Product
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs
Writing Space Psychic Thoroughly See No Point Area Point Maker Am Been Acting Explorer Exploring Map Inner
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues. William S. Burroughs
Man World Young Rather More Simply Issues Place Young Man Tolerant
Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home. Zelda Fitzgerald
Home Believe Spells Seems He Name How His Fitzgerald Begins Plagiarism
Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it. Quentin Crisp
Opportunity Rudeness Living Strongest Combined Motives Provides Maximum Displaying
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. Quentin Crisp
You Mother Fire Drop Country Fall Out Open Womb Crawl Across Your Grave
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Quentin Crisp
Me Parenting World Mother Father Threatened Protected
Men get laid, but women get screwed. Quentin Crisp
Women Men Get Laid Screwed
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that. Ursula K. Le Guin
You Writing Seriously Suicide Approve Kids Marry Above Taken Die Commit Want Your
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. Ursula K. Le Guin
Grateful Be Grateful Revolution Ungrateful Must Always Children
Wildlife film-makers I know tell me that the effort to portray what looks like an untouched ecosystem becomes harder every year. They have to choose their camera angles ever more carefully to exclude the evidence of destruction, travel further to find the Edens they depict. George Monbiot
Me Travel Destruction Year Every Carefully Wildlife Evidence Further Tell Find Angles More Exclude Like Ecosystem Know Untouched Looks Becomes Camera Effort Depict Choose Ever Harder Portray Film-Makers
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. A. N. Wilson
People Clever Lawyers Journalists Clever People Want Really Now
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. A. N. Wilson
Music People Joy Sadness Doubt Typical Address Would No Doubt Both Argue Combination Nevertheless Piece Another Clock Very Irony Which Sentimental England English English People Bell Peculiar
The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together. A. N. Wilson
Day Family Me You Together Queen Walk Big Breakfast Live Philip Meet All Day Never Shared Like Prince Houses Spouse Bedroom Your Even Round Lives Royal Royal Family Need
I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea. A. N. Wilson
Me Strange People Beginning About Jolly Idea Know Want Realize Starting
The scribbler's life is never done. A. N. Wilson
Life Never Done
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