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"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."
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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."
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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."
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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."
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"Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?"
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"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."
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"Nico didn't like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring " the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father's presence was cold and often callous, but it was real " brutally honest, inescapably dependable."
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"They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt."
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"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."
History
"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."
Death
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
Purpose
"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."
Gold
"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."
Mystery
"I can't afford a whole new set of enemies."
Enemy
"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."
City
"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."
Criticism
"What is elegance? Soap and water!"
Cleanliness
"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."
Want
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