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[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
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Painter
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
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For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
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