• America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.

  William S. Burroughs
  American writer and artist 1914-1997
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. non-dreamers
2. non-dream
3. precisely
4. existence
5. happening
6. therefore

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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers. by : William S. Burroughs

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