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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."
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"In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot."
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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"
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"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."
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"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."
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"So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."
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"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."
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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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"When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."
Literature
"That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease."
Perception
"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."
Work
"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is-an intense form of thought."
Creativity
"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
Society
"When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying."
Mortality
"Hardship makes the world obscure."
Hardship
"How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature."
Literature
"I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts."
Communication
"We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures."
Observation
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