Quotes with death-like

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  • Alice Hoffman All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
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  • Baruch Spinoza All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
    On the Improvement of the Understanding
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Alberto Giacometti All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Alexander Woollcott All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Alain Robert All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
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  • James Joyce All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Lord George Byron All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Oscar Wilde All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Antonin Artaud All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Henry David Thoreau All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Audre Lorde All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Edith Wharton Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bill Gurley Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Busy Philipps Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bob Monkhouse Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
    Obituary in The Independent
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Richard Dawkins Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Jacob Braude Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
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