Quotes with embalmed

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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• One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

  Dustin Hoffman
  American actor and director (1937 - )
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• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  Florence King
  American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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• In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.

  Caitlin Doughty
  American author, blogger (1984 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• life-blood
• successful
• undertaker
• heavy-duty
• already
• showing

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