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It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
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Roger Joseph Ebert
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I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.
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The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?
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I just assume I'm right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.
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