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It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the goo...

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I am a dead woman. Dead and insane.

Funerals are for the living, Jace, not for the dead.

Isabelle! he called again. Let down your raven hair. Oh, my God, Clary muttered. There was something...

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Oh, God,” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him de...

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I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be...

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The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

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Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems

sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

The dead are way more organized than the living.

...,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shav...

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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

The stamp is something left over from an inpatient hospital program. In some other program RELEASED ...

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My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what...

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They knew a lot, the dead. How many times had she said to Harry they were the world’s greatest untap...

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Clive BarkerThe Scarlet Gospels

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing...

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All death matters.""Only to the living.

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...

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The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see i...

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

You know because you’ve been it, and I know because I’m dead and it gives one such a wonderfully unc...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, tho...

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He looked out over the shirtless, muscled, tanned men and realised that right here, on this disco fl...

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Yes, brothers and sisters, the mission of the Church is glorious-to invite all of us to come unto Ch...

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The hunter does not seek dead game.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that soun...

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O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their p...

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George EliotO May I Join the Choir Invisible! And Other Favourite Poems

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust a...

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Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot.

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George R. R. MartinA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, th...

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The living have no place at the feasts of the dead.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellying...

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H. G. WellsThe War of the Worlds

Let the dead bury the dead...

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15...

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There. My ears are all dead. Now you try."Three times I repeated the movements she'd made. Slowly, c...

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Haruki MurakamiA Wild Sheep Chase

For in Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, it's always high noon and what glows is fuchsia and what's dead...

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The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.

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Ian FlemingFrom Russia With Love

From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps...

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Ian FlemingFrom Russia With Love

How quickly the dead faded into each other,

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to reco...

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Isaac Bashevis SingerAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend th...

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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserab...

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There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dea...

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?

The dead pull the living down.

He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki...

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The dead pull the living down.

He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and ki...

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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someonewho might...

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Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end ...

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(Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of th...

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We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningf...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempes...

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Isn’t it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the earth stays the same s...

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Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

The best to do with a death was to move on from it.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Ronan," Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling.""It's called being dead," Ronan replied.

Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He...

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He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.'Sorry,' Perse...

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So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause the...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous tha...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

After Chopin's death, Polish patriots cut up his body to take out his heart. They nationalized this ...

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Milan KunderaTestaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant.Even when the trial i...

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Milan KunderaTestaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm no...

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The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but th...

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We all have so many functions, so many ways of existing. In my own vision of myself, I am a scholar ...

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Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,...

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In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of peopl...

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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being...

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There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a ...

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangin...

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He was in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was a writer, and tonight was the Day of the Dead ceremony. He was ...

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