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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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"I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to."
"Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference."
"I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it."
"Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you reenlist."
"The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing."
"I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens."
"He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving."
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"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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