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William S. Burroughs

"Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out."

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"Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out."

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"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage."

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"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."

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"All defensiveness stems from the need to be right and frustration over not being able to control others."

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"You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it."

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"We don't do what we want to, we do what we are allowed to."

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"We cannot control all the circumstances of our lives, but we can control our attitudes and our actions. If we don't, someone else will."

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"A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live."

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