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• Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.

  Steve Kluger

  Gay, Night, Doe

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• I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.

  Studs Terkel

  Cat, Curiosity, Dying

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• Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister devoted friend she saved the world a lot.

  Joss Whedon

  Summer, World, Beloved

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Gift". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Either our history shall with full mouth
  Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
  Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
  Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths, Speak, Graves

  William Shakespeare (1851). “The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]”, p.429

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• I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Dream, People

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• Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Dying, Virtue

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

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• A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me.

  Paul Eddington

  Thinking, People, Done

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Memories, Writing, Blood

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• I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Tombstone, Lying

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• EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.

  Franz Wright

  Sorry, Couple, Who I Am

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.89, Knopf

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• Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fame, Late

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

  Oswald Mosley

  Wake Up, Empires, British

  Oswald Mosley (1957). “Mosley: the facts”

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• I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Tombstone, Wonder, Meetings

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1949). “A religious rebel: the letters of "H. W. S." (Mrs. Pearsall Smith)”

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• After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet Death, Ill, Hamlet 2

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [553]

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• I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.

  William Osler

  Education, Important, Desire

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.221, Ravenio Books

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• Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Writing

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• Every man at time of Death,
  Would fain set forth some saying that may live
  After his death and better humankind;
  For death gives life's last word a power to live,
  And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
  After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Lying, Cutting

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.204

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• Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Eye, Mad, Facts

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and characteristic men”, p.150

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• [On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

  Gloria Allred

  Equal

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• I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Long, Enough, Happens

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• Visit the graveyards sometimes and read the headstone epitaphs! There is much to learn from the dark face of the life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Dark, Faces

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• [Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Too Deep, Suggesting

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• Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Death, Horse

  John Ruskin (1902*). “Works”

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• [Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

  Dorothy Parker

  Plot, Involved

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• At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

  Brian Eno

  Song, Couple, Party

  "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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