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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

~Don Delillo

Topics: Being Central Dead Enjoy How Liberating Literature Lovely Margins Novel Outside Perception Were Work Would Writer You

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On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

~Don Ellis

Topics: Anyone Behind Dead He His Lets Long Mind Minute Notes Solo Those Trumpet Wander

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I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.' And then it was nothingness.

~Donald Sutherland

Topics: After Against Day Dead Figure Happened Head Just Knowing Not Knowing Nothingness Obsessed Okay Out Said Sat Then Trying Wall Were Whole You

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We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Animals Businesses Codes Countryside Critically Dead Feeding Food Genetic Live Putting Speak Stop Substances Would

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It is easy to fall into despair thinking about all that is wrong with the world. The joys seems so small in comparison. Internet videos of cats riding Roombas just can't compete with a father talking about how his dead 13-year-old son had wanted to be a pilot.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: About Cats Comparison Compete Dead Despair Easy Fall Father Had His How Internet Joys Just Pilot Riding Seems Small Son Talking Thinking Videos Wanted World Wrong

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I would absolutely love to do a revival of 'Bury the Dead' by Irwin Shaw on Broadway, but it would have to be Joe Calarco's version that we did Off-Broadway at The Transport Group in 2008. It was just one of those amazing shows that didn't run long enough and not nearly enough people got a chance to see.

~Donna Lynne Champlin

Topics: Absolutely Amazing Broadway Bury Chance Dead Did Enough Enough People Got Group Joe Just Just One Long Love Nearly People Revival Run See Shows Those Transport Version Would

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They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Before Better Dead Give Had Me Nobel Now Off Someone Think Thinking Were I Think

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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: About Dead Me Off Pleased Wars Will Worrying

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The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Any Cherish Costly Dead Decay Finest Flowers French Memory More Nation Often Other Perhaps Places Plants Replacing Than Vigorous

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The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Around Bodies Bottom Bottom Line Dead Line Lost People Save Some Still Walking Whose Writing

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