- Food
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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
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.
- Nov 07, 2020
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's a certain sort of stigma, a sort of kookiness, when it comes to that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every decade the game changes and evolves, but by no means do I think the center position is dead, because there's still a lot of great centers.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put me in a museum.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020