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William S. Burroughs Quotes: 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.
         

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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