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" Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. "

Ernest Hemingway

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" As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. "

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