America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the s…

William S. Burroughs
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2007). Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader, p.153, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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