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“It was as if he was contemptuous of his talent - his acting is suffused with guilt, with a sense of loss, with the water of life flowing by.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

“As he spoke, the end that is death enveloped him. Life left his limbs and took wing for the house of Hades, bewailing its lot and the youth and the manhood it had left behind.”
― Homer, The Iliad of Homer, Books X-XXIV

“What Burton actually was, was a disappointed romantic, and as he registered his own downfall, his life became intolerable to him.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

“As the unreality of Hollywood only made him aware of his agitation and hollowness, he was drawn back sentimentally to his birth place, or tot he idea of his birthplace, and he drank himself to death when he saw only wasted opportunities: 'I loved my silly image as the besotted Welsh genius, dying in his own vomit in the gutter,' he said unconvincingly.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor