- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dead Quotes
On endings, memory, and staying in motion.
This collection pairs practical advice about staying adaptable with more reflective lines on mourning - including the idea that sorrow over loss can actually refine a person rather than only weigh them down. Related theme: Death.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I discovered European filmmakers, it affected me so deeply. It redefined what cinema could be. I mean, 'Blow-Up' ends with a dead body and mimes playing tennis. What?
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020