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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

"Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud."

"Let your only graduation be in the grave."

"When it's all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face."

"A dead man's vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being's pride."

"Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect."
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"So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth."

"The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them."

"As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience."

"Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it."
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