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title: "6 Heard Dead Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emory-upton/i-have-heard-of-the-dead-lying-in-heaps-but-never-saw-it-till-this/)

[Emory Upton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emory-upton/)

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> [It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-butcher/it-bothered-me-that-he-was-right-without-sir-stuart-s-intervention-i/)

[Jim Butcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-butcher/)

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> [“When I heard that she was dead, I really suffered very little.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-household/when-i-heard-that-she-was-dead-i-really-suffered-very-little/)

[Geoffrey Household](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-household/)

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> [“Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/horace-like-all-dogs-heard-dead-voices-quite-often-and-sometimes-saw/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/i-d-heard-you-were-dead-i-heard-you-wear-a-red-lace-corset-i-said/)

[Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-rothfuss/)

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> [Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/not-waving-but-drowning-nobody-heard-him-the-dead-man-but-still-he/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

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