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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
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St. Louis
Missouri
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.
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Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
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Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.
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We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.
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We should exterminate all rational thought.
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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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