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“It's the roaring that makes you hear the stillness in your head louder. I imagine that when I die it's gonna be like that. There's gonna come a big, white sound, like spring rapids or avalanche, and it's gonna sweep me up into it, but it ain't gonna carry me away, no. No, it's gonna make me a part of it. In that moment, when I'm dying for good, I'm gonna be that white water. I'm gonna be that avalanche. Yes, I will. I know how it's going to be. Those last few moments I'm alive, I'm gonna dive down deep into that roaring and I'm gonna swim through until I find the stillness at the raging heart of it.”

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Book:The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All
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“But it ain't having a weak heart that lets you live as long as I have. It ain't even living that makes you live as long as me. All that shit about living a "full life" and all that. You can make love to all the women you want, make millions or dollars or eat out of a Campbell's soup can most of your life like I have. It doesn't matter for shit. What matters is outliving. Choose something, or someone, to outlive and there ain't a thing that can kill you.”

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Book:The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All
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