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"They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it."
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"I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father's paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father's hand. 'What's this?' he asked, raising a brow. 'You'll need it to sign my death certificate, ' I said, pain vibrating my veins against my muscles and bones. 'Are we done now? (Eric)"

"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."
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"Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words."

"We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world."

"You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images."

"The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things."

"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom."

"When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract."

"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media."

"It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media."
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