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“If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we’d know a…

— Jason Arnopp

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

— Anne Enright

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being…

— Edward Thomas

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint.…

— John Green

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“According to his upbringing, there were certain subjects that it was ill-mannered to raise in conversation with a new acquaintance. With the likes of…

— Jonathan L. Howard

The dead are way more organized than the living.

— China Mieville

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

— Willa Cather

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed…

— Mark Twain

“The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to…

— Hassan Blasim