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Death by starvation is slow.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
I had always loved John Ford’s pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.
I’m death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it… that’s different.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg’s importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!