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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.
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas ... a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)