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"Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste."

"As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead."

"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."
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"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

"The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent."
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