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“Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).

— George Herbert

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

— Walter Benjamin

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

— Walter Benjamin

“Her conception of the role of the medical examiner was to speak for the dead to help the living.”

— Robin Cook

“When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things.”

— Alice Sebold

The dead govern the living.

— Auguste Comte

“Genealogy is the study of the dead---but it's not a dead study!!!”

— Paul Hackley

“T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the…

— Mark Twain

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking…

— John Berger

The dead governs the living.

— Auguste Comte