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> [“By now it is a ready-made cliché—the rock star dying young, whether by excess, by accident, or by suicide. For some, it’s part of the act, macabre performance art, a final song. This last mode, suicide, can be elusive. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-todd-schultz/by-now-it-is-a-ready-made-clich-the-rock-star-dying-young-whether-by/)

William Todd Schultz

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## Other authors on Drug use

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gabor-mate-36627.jpg) Gabor Maté 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drug-use/gabor-mat/)

## More by William Todd Schultz

> [“By now it is a ready-made cliché—the rock star dying young, whether by excess, by accident, or by suicide. For some, it’s part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-todd-schultz/by-now-it-is-a-ready-made-clich-the-rock-star-dying-young-whether-by/)

William Todd Schultz

> [“Elliott was disarmingly bright, according to everyone who knew him, an avid reader of Dostoevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Stendhal, Freud, the Buddha, all of whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-todd-schultz/elliott-was-disarmingly-bright-according-to-everyone-who-knew-him-an/)

William Todd Schultz

> [“And what the music elicits—in me, in most everyone who hears it and takes to it—is a strangely comforting, sensual melancholy, a gentle sadness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-todd-schultz/and-what-the-music-elicits-in-me-in-most-everyone-who-hears-it-and/)

William Todd Schultz

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