Quotes with dead-ends

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  • William S. Burroughs There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Thornton Wilder There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • William Shakespeare There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bob Dylan There's seven people dead
    On a South Dakota farm
    Somewhere in the distance
    There's seven new people born
    Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • James Russell Lowell They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Callimachus They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
    They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
    I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
    Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
    Source: Epigrams Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Barry Pepper They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
    Barry Pepper
    Canadian-American actor (1950 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich Things which do not grow and change are dead things.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • William Butler Yeats Think where man’s glory most begins and ends
    And say my glory was I had such friends.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • T. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Antonin Artaud Those who live, live off the dead.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Three can keep a secret if two are dead.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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