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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.
Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
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- Andy Warhol
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- Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1928 to 1987; Wikidata Q5603, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5603 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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