I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
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Roger Ebert
Film critic
United States · 1942–2013
Arts and letters
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Film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 and the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Treated for thyroid and salivary gland cancer from 2002, he lost his lower jaw and the ability to speak, eat and drink in 2006, and turned his journal at rogerebert.com into the most widely read thing he wrote. He continued reviewing until two days before his death in April 2013.
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