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461

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

460

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

459

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

G. K. Chesterton

458

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 Burroughs

457

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

William Burroughs

456

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

William Burroughs

455

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

William Burroughs

454

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Kurt Vonnegut

453

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

H. G. Wells

452

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

H. G. Wells

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