William S. Burroughs Quotes
The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.
Burroughs, William S. Nova Express. Grove Press, 1964.
The poem goes on to make sexual innuendoes of various types and ends with the line: The Vietnamese society at the time was sexually quite straight-laced for ordinary people, but not so, amongst the power elites.
Andy Hardy was a wholesome character played by Rooney.
Also attributed to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
The irony of this quotation is that in later years, Sanford, was involved in his own sex scandal. Sanford refused to resign - see related quote.
Ms. Andrew Jackson’s divorce from her first husband was not done following all the legal requirements of the time. Technically, she was therefore a bigamist and an adulteress at the same time. While most Americans had no problem with this, there was then as there has been ever since a small, religiously driven, cultural conservative movement who objected to a President who was living with an adulteress in bigamy. Hammond was one of them. Just as Bill Clinton was very popular despite his sexual, moral transgressions, so was Jackson. However the conservatives of Washington DC made her life socially miserable.
The Secret Service at the time was embarrassed by agents assigned to Presidential Security getting intoxicated and philandering with women in foreign countries where they were supposed to be scouting potential security breaches in anticipation of a Presidential visit.
William Seward Burroughs II was an American writer, visual artist, spoken word performer and chaos magician credited as a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians and made many appearances in films. He was also briefly known by the pen name William Lee. Burroughs created and exhibited thousands of paintings and other visual artworks, including his celebrated 'Shotgun Art'.
