Roger Ebert, celebrated film critic, author and Pulitzer Prize winner, lost his battle with cancer today. Already a professional writer at the tender age of fifteen, Ebert would go on to shape the way we view movies, deepening our love and appreciation of cinema like no one else before him. For Ebert, movies were more than just quick snippets of entertainment–they were the ultimate metaphor for life. An opinionated, savvy, and original thinker, his words reveal more about who he was and what he stood for than any obit can. Here’s an excerpt from his beautiful essay, “I Do Not Fear Death,” republished on Salon today: “I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same…Image may be NSFW.
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