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"Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time."
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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."
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"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."
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"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."
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"A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind."
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"Life has an end. We are all on a transit."
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"You don't need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave."
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"To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier."
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"Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying."
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"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."
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"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?"
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"Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder."
Humor
"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."
Dream
"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."
Wisdom
"Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant."
Humor
"The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies."
Wisdom
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
Inspirational
"Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written."
Work
"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything."
Wisdom
"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
Life
"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."
Writing
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