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"And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."
   The Bethrothed - Rudyard Kiping

"A cigar is only a cigar, but a good woman is a smoke."
   Me

"Here am I laid, my life of misery done,
 Ask not my name, I curse you everyone."
   Epitah, ordered inscribed on tomb at Hale

PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a
         single partitioner who is confessedly unworthy.
 
BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters.
 
CARTESTIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the
                 celebrated dictum, Cogito, ergo sum... The dictum might 
                 improved, however, this: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
                 "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am"; as close
                 as an approach to certainty as any philosopher has ever yet
                 made.
 
UN-AMERICAN, adj., Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.

The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o' rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o' poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.

"And what do you believe in??" the parish priest asked Amanda sternly. Amanda looked up from the beetle shell upon whcih she was painting a miniature scene in watercolors. "I beleive in birth, copulation and death," she answered. "Although copulation empodies the other two, and death is only a form of borning. At any rate, I was born nineteen years ago. Some day I shall die. Today, I think I'll copulate." And indeed she did.

"Nothing is True. Everything is
 permitted."

Last words of Hassan Sabbah -
 The Old Man Of The Mountain
 
LISTEN TO MY LAST WORDS ANY WORLD. LISTEN
ALL YOU BOARDS SYNIDACTES AND GOVERN-
MENTS OF THE EARTH. AND YOU POWER POWERS
BEHIND WHAT FLITH DEALS CONSUUMMATED IN
WHAT LAVATORY TO TAKE WHAT IS NOT YOURS.
TO SELL THE GROUND FROM UNBORN FEET.
LISTEN. WHAT I HAVE TO SAY IS FOR ALL MEN
EVERYWHERE. I REPEAT FOR ALL. NO ONE IS
EXCLUDED. FREE TO ALL WHO PAY. FREE TO ALL
WHO PAIN PAY.
 
WHAT SCARED YOU ALL INTO TIME? WHAT
SCARED YOU ALL INTO YOUR BNODIES? INTO SHIT
FOREVER? DO YOU WANT TO STAY THERE FOR-
EVER? THEN LISTEN TO TEH LAST WORDS OF
HASSAN SABBAH. LISTEN LOOK OR SHIT FOREVER.
LISTEN LOOK OR SHIT FOREVER. WHAT SCARED
YOU INTO TIME? INTO BODY? INTO SHIT? I WILL
TELL YOU. THE WORD. THE-THEE WORD. IN THEE
BEGINNING WAS THE WORD. SCARED YOU ALL
INTO SHIT FOREVER. COME OUT FOREVER. COME
OUT OF THE TIME WORD THE FOREVER. COME
OUT OF THE BODY WORD THEE FOREVER. COME
OUT OF THE SHIT WORD THE FOREVER. ALL OUT
OF TIME AND INTO SPACE. FOREVER. THERE IS
NO THING TO FEAR. THERE IS NO THING IN
SPACE. THAT IS ALL ALL ALL HASSAN SABBAH.
THERE IS NO WORD TO FEAR. THERE IS NO WORD.
THAT IS ALL ALL ALL HASSAN SABBAH. IF YOU I
CANCEL ALL YOU WORDS FREVER. AND THE
WORDS OF HASSAN SABBAH I AS ALSO CANCEL.
ACROSS ALL YOUR SKIES SEE THE SILENT WRIT-
ING OF BRION GYSIN HASSAN SABBAH. THE WRIT-
ING OF SPACE. THE WRITING OF SILENCE.
 
         LOOK     LOOK    LOOK
 
AMIGOS MUCHACHOS A TRAVES DE TODOS SUS
CIELOS VEA LA ESCRITURA SILENCIOSA DE BRION
GYSIN HASSAN SABBAH. LA ESCRITURA DE SILEN-
CIO LA ESCRITURA DE ESPACIO. ESO ES TODO
TODO TODO HASSAN SABBAH.
 
         VEA     VEA     VEA
 
William S. Burroughs
June 21, 1960

The most preposterous nation that H. Sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history. The second most preposterous ntion is that copulation is inherintly sinful.

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

The old saw about the early bird just goes to show that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Don't ever become a pesimist; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun -- and neither can stop the march of events.

Sluts are women who sleep with everyone
Bitches are women who sleep with everyone but you
   --Amy Crook