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“Since Pussy never had thought, nor would she think, that women shouldn't have abortions, she had to come to terms with the realization that to be human, and woman, includes the possibility and even the act of murder.”
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― Pussy, King of the Pirates
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― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
“I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.”
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