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Roosevelt can do no wrong is Burroughs's opinion; and that Burroughs is always right is Roosevelt's opinion.
The Other Animals 2010
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Mr. Burroughs's position be stated, and stated in his words.
The Other Animals 2010
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The cause of Mr. Burroughs's mediaeval view of the other animals is to be found, not in his knowledge of those other animals, but in the suggestion of his self-exalted ego.
The Other Animals 2010
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In short, Mr. Burroughs's homocentric theory has been developed out of his homocentric ego, and by the misuse of language he strives to make the facts of life jibe with his theory.
The Other Animals 2010
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The preceding quotation is tantamount, on Mr. Burroughs's part, to a flat denial that animals reason even in a rudimentary way.
The Other Animals 2010
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And right here we catch a glimpse of Mr. Burroughs's cart standing before his horse.
The Other Animals 2010
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I sat on the floral couch in my mother's living room and read Burroughs's Junky as I drifted into a cold medicine induced sleep.
Going to Pensacola to Die Kat Moore 2012
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However, when he, Stephen Mallinder and Christopher Watson formed Cabaret Voltaire in 1973, fired up by Eno-era Roxy Music and William Burroughs's cut-up techniques, there was no such tradition at all.
Warp Records: Richard H Kirk looks back on a futuristic life 2011
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Surely, when a man's mental process and a dog's mental process are precisely similar, the much-vaunted gulf of Mr. Burroughs's fancy has been bridged.
The Other Animals 2010
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When a poor devil of a writer records what he has seen, and when what he has seen does not jibe with Mr. Burroughs's mediaeval theory, he calls said writer a nature-faker.
The Other Animals 2010
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