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Sarah Vowell

"Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death."

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Donna Grant

"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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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

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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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Donna Grant

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

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Donna Grant

"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know."
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"History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting."
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"I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy."
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"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."
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"We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry."
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"One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes."
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"In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life."
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"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."
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