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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

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Knowledge,

Author:

William S. Burroughs
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Category: Knowledge

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Right up until the time I retired at age 37 I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
  • 2. You hit a certain age and – especially because of TV – the young cooks coming up say 'You're a sellout because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore all I do is TV.
  • 3. I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When you think of what Americans accomplished building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America not just from abroad but internally.
  • 2. So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it moving on.
  • 3. I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. I have some anger issues.
  • 2. If anger proceeds from a great cause it turns to fury if from a small cause it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
  • 3. Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast or murder thy friend.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.
  • 2. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  • 3. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

5 Architecture

  • 1. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
  • 2. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
  • 3. If I have a style I am not aware of it.
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