When asked to write something for the book on Texas' death row, he chose not to write about himself, but about a fellow inmate who took his own life.

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Hence, some of the characters in books through whom you had glimpsed life's possibilities were fellow Americans of yours.

所以你要借助,书中的东西和角色,来表达生活的可能性。

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His claim that the lives of his fellow citizens are not worth living and his claim that his way of life has been commanded by a god that no one else has ever heard or seen.

他主张其同胞的人生,不值得活,和自己的生活方式,是受神性的指示,这些都未曾有人听闻过。

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