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" My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. "

William S. Burroughs

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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. "

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" Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. "

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" Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear. "

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" No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. "

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" This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. "

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" A functioning police state needs no police. "

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" I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. "

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" Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. "

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" An addict never stops growing. Stupider. "

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" Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. "

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