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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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"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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"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
Genius
"Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it."
Love
"I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John."
Time
"Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery."
Love
"Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?"
Love
"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."
Death
"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
Being
"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."
Competition
"The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings."
Blessing
"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded."
Life
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