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• I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Inspiration, Wish

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• Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

  H. G. Wells

  Fire, Leader, Choke

  "Kgalema Motlanthe's Farewell Speech". www.iol.co.za. March 12, 2014.

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• Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

  Bobby Darin

  Shoes, Boots, Flip

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• No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Incense, Burn Out, Lighters

  Walter Savage Landor (1933). “Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture”

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• I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

  Elizabeth I

  Shepherds, Reign, Left

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• When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

  Frank McCourt

  Childhood, Catholic, Ordinary

  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir ch. 1 (1996)

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• It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

  Anne Baxter

  Inspiring, Failure, Phoenix

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• Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

  Richard Pryor

  Islands, Half, Want

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• My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, War, Struggle

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• You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Toilets, Care, I Care

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• Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years we water it with blood and tears.

  Nancy Holder

  Mother, Dust, Blood

  Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié (2010). “Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Dream, Phoenix, Socialism

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• No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.

  Pope Francis

  Sleep, Fasting, Matter

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• Feather to fire,fire to blood
  Blood to bone,bone to marrow
  Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

  Gregory Colbert

  Fire, Blood, Snow

  "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.

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• For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Mama, Sides, Reason

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• I dare to dream greatly; I dare to fail greatly. I dare to tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled dreams, for I may dream again. I dare not tolerate the ashes of my unfulfilled life, for I may never live again.

  Philippos Syrigos

  Dream, May, Failing

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• Lastly, the ashes left behind,
  May daily show to move the mind,
  That to ashes and dust return we must:
  Then think, and drink tobacco.

  George Wither

  Moving, Thinking, Dust

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• Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Believe, Two, Celebrate

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.200, Dell

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• She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Laughter, Pain, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.49, GENERAL PRESS

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• Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud!

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Growing Up, Believe

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• I love you. I know the real you too. You think I don't but how easily you forget I was the one who bailed you out of trouble over and over again as kids. I didn't ask the perfect Ashton to be my girlfriend when I was fourteen years old. I asked the only Ash I'd ever known. You changed all on your own. I'm not going to lie. I was proud of the girl you had become. My world was complete. I had the perfect family, perfect girl, perfect future. I let myself forget the other girl you once were.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Real, Lying

  Abbi Glines (2012). “The Vincent Boys”, p.82, Abbi Glines

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• She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Clothes, Bed

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• There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that. We're haunted by the genocide that is America, the decimation of so many native cultures. As a mix-blood European ancestry American, you're a nexus of all those violences, and yet there's a relative personal identity as well.

  Anne Waldman

  Blood, America, Identity

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Harry," she said quietly, "I know you must be angry." I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

  Jim Butcher

  Couple, Past, Steps

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.16, Penguin

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• He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Morning, Heart, Gun

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.103, Wordsworth Editions

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