It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

Peter Biskind
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The brother's love for death is very unusual. It's bizarre to see someone so obsessed with death and dying, not to mention suicide. Why would people want to kill themselves? It doesn't make sense.

Source: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

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