"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."

Death, Life, Decisions

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"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."

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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

Buddha, Indian Leader

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"So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Birth was the death of him."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

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"May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."

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"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something."

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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."

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"Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different."

People

"It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money."

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"Artists are like everybody else."

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"There's no possible way you can get what you want."

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"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple."

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"But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence."

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