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"Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it."
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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"
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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."
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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."
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"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"
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"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."
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"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."
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"Easter is the final solution to the finality of death."
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"The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction."
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"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
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"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
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"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
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"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character

"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life

"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
Happiness

"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
Woman
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