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• Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Moon, Alabama, Mama

  Bertolt Brecht (1990). “Brecht Collected Plays: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mohagony and the Seven Deadly Sins :”, Methuen

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• G'bye, I'm going out to play!

  Shel Silverstein

  Funny, Play, Going Out

  Shel Silverstein, “Sick”

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• Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale

  Catullus

  Brother, Good Bye, Hello

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• And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say hello or good-bye. You might even kiss a close friend chastely on the lips. You might quickly hug anyone you knew. You might even meet someone at a party, take him home and sleep with him, never to see him or hear from him again. But to join hands and stand holding each other that way, with the electricity of possibilities flowing between you? The tenderness of it, the promise of it, is only something you share with a few people in your life.

  Lisa Unger

  Party, Home, Sleep

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• Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.

  Terry Hanson

  Travel, Kissing, Thinking

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• Detroit's so bad this year they might lose their bye week.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Years, Nfl

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• It hurts when it don't last, no easy way saying bye. So I'mma spread my wings and head for the sky.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Hurt, Sky, Mma

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• They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.

  Ann Aguirre

  Memories, Moving, Dust

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.41, Penguin

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• Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

  James M. Barrie

  Times Have Changed, Sitting, Saws

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• It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.

  Ringo Starr

  Goodbye, Kissing, Past

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

  Mao Zedong

  Spring, Rain, Land

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent into the same hell that had birthed her to life. In this moment of decision she condemned to death the one she would risk anything to save. To the night, Munroe whispered good-bye. Opened the floodgates to Gehenna-that place of the wicked, that place of the dead-and here in this deserted spot, she buried her soul.

  Taylor Stevens

  Block, Mean, Night

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• There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is where kisses come from.' I had been thinking about it. Nursing had to be the place where nurturing and sweet milk and soft skin and mouths and warmth all came together and started to mean something about love. I had always assumed kissing was a learned thing, like waving bye-bye or speaking a language. But since Maxie, I'd decided that it was innate, the adult version of something we know to do from the moment we're born. All of it tied together in the cycle of life.

  Katherine Center

  Girl, Sweet, Mean

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• Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how you leave: by never saying good-bye.)And I learned that: to return. I came back the following year and the year after that. I hope to return every year (after all, I may never have the chance to learn so much), until I have no one to return to. (301)

  Bill Buford

  Years, Knives, Steel

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• I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Believe, Government

  Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

  Mao Zedong

  Life, Weed, Stars

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• She opened her mouth to answer, but he was already kissing her. She had kissed him so many times—soft gentle kisses, hard and desperate ones, brief brushes of the lips that said good-bye, and kisses that seemed to go on for hours—and this was no different. The way the memory of someone who had once lived in a house might linger even after they were gone, like a sort of psychic imprint, her body remembered Jace. Remembered the way he tasted, the slant of his mouth over hers, his scars under her fingers, the shape of his body under her hands.

  Cassandra Clare

  Memories, Kissing, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• There are some things you never say good-bye to

  Elizabeth Berg

  Good Bye, Saying Good Bye

  Elizabeth Berg (2007). “Dream when You're Feeling Blue: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Simple, Thinking, Hello

  Cecil Castellucci (2011). “First Day on Earth”, p.71, Scholastic Inc.

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• Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wall, Fall, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.243, Ohio State University Press

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• [H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Years, Dawn, Awake

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• ...even saying good-bye isn’t enough. There’s always one more thing you should have had the time to say, or do, or ask. There’s always going to be that one missing piece.

  Mira Grant

  Should Have, Missing, Pieces

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• Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.

  Ally Carter

  Drs, Stairs, Said

  Ally Carter (2012). “Gallagher Girls: Out of Sight, Out of Time”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• Kiss those cuffs good-bye." Lula from "Hard Eight" By Janet Evonavich

  Janet Evanovich

  Kissing, Eight, Cuffs

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• I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.

  David Levithan

  Missing, Good Bye, Saying Good Bye

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