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And what does the money machine eat to shit it out? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.

— William S. Burroughs The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1966)

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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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