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On the final script Bill wrote as he neared death
>"Bill wrote a script [...] about a serial killer who goes around murdering hack comics. When the police finally catch the killer - Bill's character - he tries to explain. 'Why? You have the gall to stand here and ask me why? Let me ask you what answer must a surgeon give for cutting from the body cancers that threaten its very existence? For verily I say unto thee my mission was no less holy, my intent no less pure. A changing moment in my life came the day I first laughed. That was when life took a new form and my sad visions were cleansed by humour and from that day I paid homage to comedy. From that day I studied with the zeal of monks lost in religious rapture, the works of the comedy masters. For I loved comedy and I loved those who loved it. I loved those who gave their lives to find the perfect laugh, the real laugh, the gut laugh, the healing laugh. For love, I killed those comedians."
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On Bill returning to his parents' home
>"having gone halfway around the world, talking to thousands of strangers from hundreds of stages, only to come home in the end to talk to the original two people whose approval - and conversion - he craved the most. [...] For Steve Hicks, it was the first time it really sank in that this was probably Bill's last Christmas. [...] at one point Steve's seven-year-old daughter, Rachel, cuddled with Bill and her grandmother on the living room couch. The little girl [...] turned to him and said, 'Uncle Bill, you are going to be our first angel.'"
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On Bill phoning his first girlfriend Laurie
>"He called my house over Christmas [...]. He called and left a message saying. "Hey, it's Bill. I can't believe I still remember this phone number." [...] He added, "I just want to say 'Hi' and wish all the Mangos a Merry Christmas." That was it. That was all he said."
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