Death and dying Quote by Doug Stanhope

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show people who…

— Doug Stanhope

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“We walk around like a photograph that my dad's been cut out of.”

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“Sometimes I caught my mother digging through old photo albums or staring at the wall or out the window. She’d get that look on…

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“I wish a camera had been trained on me, because it would show what it looks like for a woman to be awakened to…

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“When I asked my parents how the baby got inside Ma, they both laughed, and then Daddy told me they had made it with…

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“Photos I’m not in and memories we don’t share, haunt my lonely eyes.”

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“I couldn't make myself imagine Dad holding some creamy-faced baby, cooing at it, telling it he loved it. Taking it to baseball games. Living…

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“I suppose I saw photos of him in the papers, but I wouldn’t recognize my own mother when a press photographer had done with…

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“My father had bought him a shirt that said “Sure you can date my daughter.  In a completely unrelated topic, have you seen my…

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“Riding back from the grocery store, I realized my father was two men—one he presented to the outside world, and one, far darker, that…

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