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William S. Burroughs

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

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William S. Burroughs is saying that destroying a person's or a group's hopes and beliefs can be as harmful as physical violence.

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