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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."
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Personal Development
"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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Personal Development
"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."
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Personal Development
"May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven."
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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?"
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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."
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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."
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"You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it."
Influence
"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."
Science
"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."
Animals
"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
Friendship
"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."
Death
"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."
Imagination
"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."
Imagination
"I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs."
Enemy
"People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier."
Marriage
"Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety."
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