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• You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Men, People

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• Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

  Derek Landy

  Tired, Men, Focus

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• The government hates rap. That's why they don't arrest anybody that kills rappers! Only the good ones are dead, man! Only the good ones: Biggie dead, Tupac dead, Vanilla Ice still alive! They don't fill out a police report. They don't even have a chalk line when it's a dead rapper, they just take a piss around the body.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Hate, Rap

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Artist, Men

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.53, Dial Press

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• Dead men have no victory.

  Euripides

  Men, Victory

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The word
  was born in the blood,
  grew in the dark body, beating,
  and took flight through the lips and the mouth.
  Farther away and nearer
  still, still it came
  from dead fathers and from wondering races,
  from lands which had turned to stone,
  lands weary of their poor tribes,
  for when grief took to the roads
  the people set out and arrived
  and married new land and water
  to grow their words again.
  And so this is the inheritance;
  this is the wavelength which connects us
  with dead men and the dawning
  of new beings not yet come to light.

  Pablo Neruda

  Father, Grief, Dark

  Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans, Robert Bly (2007). “I explain a few things: selected poems”, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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• As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

  Bernard Malamud

  Perseverance, Men, Long

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.110, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

  Louis Gustave Vapereau

  Lying, Men, Should Have

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• From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, War, Men

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Men, Sight

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• I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.

  Wovoka

  Mother, Father, Home

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• We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

  Helen Prejean

  Death, Men, Helen

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• The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Men, Broken

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• Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

  Dan Rice

  Men, Saws, Coffins

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• We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

  Harriet Tubman

  Rain, Fall, Gun

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• As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Heaven, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 562), 1895.

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• A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fall, Men, Guy

  1953 The Long Good-Bye, ch.10.

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• Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Food, Men, Cooking

  'Fame is a Food' (1906)

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• Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Life And Death, Laughing

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.431, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Book, Men, Brain

  George Horace Lorimer (1904). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”

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• So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Men, Want

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Looks, Saws

  1970 Of World War I. Fifth Business, pt.2, ch.1.

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• A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Men, Spain, Alive

  "A Poet in New York" by Federico Garcia Lorca, ("Theory and Play of the Duende"), 1940.

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• I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

  Charles Lamb

  Tombstone, Moving, Men

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.736, Delphi Classics

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• Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dog, Men, Too Much

  "Song: Born In The U.S.A". October 30, 1984.

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