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• Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.

  Al Purdy

  Time, Fall, Autumn

  1962 Poems forAll theAnnettes,'Pause' (revised1968).

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• Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.

  William Peter Hamilton

  Business, Wall, Men

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• I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reality, California, Southern

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  War, Sacrifice, Boys

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

  Anne Sexton

  Feet, Busy

  Anne Sexton, “A Curse Against Elegies”

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• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Memories, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing

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• It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Growing Up, Revenge

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1598, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

  Wallace Stegner

  Death, Pain, Book

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Thinking, Decision, Brain

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sad, Stupid, Believe

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• I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Brother, Writing

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• Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

  Paul Farmer

  People, Development, Haiti

  "Paul Farmer Examines Haiti 'After The Earthquake'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 11, 2011.

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• Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won.

  Darryl Worley

  Brother, Father, Son

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• Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

  Holly Black

  House, Plot, Built

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

  Neil Gaiman

  Rain, Reflection, World

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• The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Stars, Years, Cities

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• alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Fate, Men

  Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”

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• I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room, the motel, and standing in from of the sink in my mother's kitchen. It takes too much energy to gather all the bits together, so I just sit there and watch him implode.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mother, Stupid, School

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.138, Penguin

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• The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.

  Richard Brautigan

  Book, People, Car

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You know, radio DJ's must really love to talk to theirselves. Especially when they have the graveyard shift. 'Hey this is Ellen with 89.1. It is currently three in the morning. There are few cars on the road. And it your still listening heres a little music to get you to dance.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Morning, Car, Listening

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• In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.

  Steven Brust

  Memories, Lying, Skins

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• I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.

  Charles Bukowski

  Feel Better, Bars, Freak

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• He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Alive, Want

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• I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Rotting

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• Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

  Andre Malraux

  Heart, Artist, Men

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