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“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”
― Last Words: The Final Journals
― Last Words: The Final Journals
“You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.”
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“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ”
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“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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