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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

— William S. Burroughs

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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

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A paranoid man is a man who knows a little about what's going on.

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Junk is surrounded by magic and taboos, curses and amulets.

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If the right to mind one's own business is recognized, the whole shit disposition is untenable and Hell hath no vociferous fury than an endangered parasite.

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A functioning police state needs no police.

Naked Lunch (1959)

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