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«I feel that this life is sort of a penal colony. People have goofed or we wouldn't be here.»
«Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?»
Author: William S. Burroughs
«In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in dreary boredom. Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
«There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.»
«To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. And maybe these folks would like a few changes made.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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planet Earth
«The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down and be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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A.D., calm down, establishment, phenomenon, rebellion, The Establishment, worldwide
«We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that alien medium. The water we live in is Time. That alien medium we glimpse beyond time is Space. And that is where we are going.»
«Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
«Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
«Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunity land crab, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
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