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Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again; No straight lines make up my life,… — Tom Chapin
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in… — H. L. Mencken
Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always… — Todd McFarlane
Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. — Thomas Carlyle
It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the… — Paolo Bacigalupi
What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for. — Jello Biafra
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to… — Teju Cole
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead. — Imogen Cunningham
The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists.… — Betty Friedan
My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.' — Edward Abbey
James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. — Edward Abbey
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many… — Edward Abbey
If you're never ridden a fast horse at a dead run across a desert valley at dawn, be of good cheer: You've only missed out… — Edward Abbey
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they… — Julian Barnes
I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious… — Thomas Paine
Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We were always dead against the war. — Bertie Ahern
Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers. — Woody Allen
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded,… — John Dewey
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for… — Samuel Gompers
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th'… — Finley Peter Dunne
I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by… — Peter Carey

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