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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."
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"Red sky at night, the city's alight."
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"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."
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"The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster Wallace."
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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."
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"It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death."
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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."
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"Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die."
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"We are all gifted. That is our inheritance."
Inheritance
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
Business
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
Intelligence
"Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show."
Success
"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
Joy
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
Time
"New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been."
Time
"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."
Living
"My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them."
Family
"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."
Thought
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