“For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drumrolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.” — DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
Tag: death
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“Death cares very little for sarcasm or trope; hurl at him a javelin or a rose, it is all one.” — Alexander Smith, “Of Death and the Fear of Dying,” Dreamthorp
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“It’s one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we’re alive when we’re reminded we’re going to die.” — Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
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“Such was the power of death—to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.” — Anita Rau Badami, The Hero’s Walk
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“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!” — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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“Death is really the mystery of life, isn’t it?” — Nadine Gordimer, The Art of Fiction No. 77, The Paris Review (Summer 1983)
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“The people are chic fugitives from life and death, rattling their teacups in querulous emotion on the deep protective balcony.” — Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
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“If you ask, ‘What happens when we die? Why do we die?’ you are asking, ‘Why do we live?’” — Nadine Gordimer, The Art of Fiction No. 77, The Paris Review (Summer 1983)
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“Death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident of receiving a warm welcome at any time, no questions asked.” — Nuruddin Farah, Hiding in Plain Sight
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“I’n know nobody who died and tell me I should be scared of it.” — Wayétu Moore, Gbessa, Paris Review (Summer 2018)
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