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So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

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He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was in a little room on the second floor of a hotel, a...more

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I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes ...more

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Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln, in the grave...more

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I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

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Once you kill all of us, and you're alone, you'll die! The hate will die. That hate is what moves you, nothing else! That envy moves you. Nothing else...more

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Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

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And in the years when your shadow leaned clear across the land as you lay abed nights with your heartbeat mounting to the billions, his invention must...more

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes ...more

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That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

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I'm afraid of them and they don't like mebecause I'm afraid.

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And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It do...more

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Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that'...more