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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
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I don't care if people hate my guts I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
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Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
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