Quotes of Smallpox - somelinesforyou

“ I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ”

- William S. Burroughs

“ The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie. ”

- Edward Jenner

“ It's a place people would go to even if the cook had just died of smallpox in the kitchen. ”

- Richard West

“ My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. ”

- William S. Burroughs
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