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When it was Hearts turn, she related a vision she had: that River hadn't wanted to be born, preferring to stay with God in heaven. God had convinced him to go, and they haggled over how long, settling on twenty-three years.
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― Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
― Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
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For River to discover himself in Rimbaud's life and Miller's prose was simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-pitying. Tellingly, he was more interested in Miller's book than in Rimbaud's actual writing: he responded to Rimbaud not as a poet, but as a symbol.
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― Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
― Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
