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"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
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"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."
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"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."

"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."

"I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist."

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

"I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive."

"If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave."

"We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave."

"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."

"I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done."
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