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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say…
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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
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I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.
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I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day…
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I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say…
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Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all…
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No, Zoey." Heat sounded pissed. It's not okay here. Not for you." Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.
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I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn’t dead yet, I was just on my way…
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But this…this kid wasn’t dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba) Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)
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There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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