Dead Quotes
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.
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If you were dead," Owen told her, "you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.
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The spirit of Hitler is not dead.
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It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.
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Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die.
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All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
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If he's not dead, it doesn't count.
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Say nothing but good of the dead.
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That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
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Great God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created! The judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated! The trumpet sounds; the graves restore, The dead which they contained before; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him!
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I wanted to tell him that all the awful things that happened in the old world were dead. And the new world, the world we lived in now, the world we were creating, that world would be better. But I didn’t say it, because I wasn’t sure it was true.
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Now that I've seen what war is ... I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.
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Guess that's a part of what the living did, they took care of their dead.
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When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures...
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Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
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The thing I hate about being dead is you can’t move on. I was in love with him when I died, so I’ll be in love with him till the sun burns out.
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The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
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To those who believe the dead do not visit them, I say you have cataracts in your soul. I am a man of science, yet I believe in guardian angels and the haunting by ghosts.
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I think, for me as an actor, if you get to a place where you're satisfied, you're happy with it, then you're dead. It's over. You're not hungry anymore. You won't try things anymore.
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I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
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The Gray Assassin? Who isn’t here to kill us? They don’t want us kind of dead, they want us extremely dead!
