William S. Burroughs - Cities of the Red Night (1981)

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There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

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Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

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Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

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