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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.

— William S. Burroughs The Place Of Dead Roads‎ (1983)

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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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Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

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