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• The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.

  Jim Shaw

  Jealous, Artist, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

  Paul Giamatti

  Men, Plath, Woolf

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• My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-abuse. When I kill the rapist inside of me, I will stop killing myself.

  Margaret Cho

  Philosophy, Self, Abuse

  "The righteous rage of Margaret Cho". Interview with Alli Maloney, nytlive.nytimes.com. November 10, 2015.

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• Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suicide, Writing, People

  Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you tell me you are going to kill yourself, I'm not going to try to talk you out of it.

  Doug Stanhope

  Trying, Ifs

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• If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives and they thought they were going to be captured, they would shoot their wives for fear of the Apaches getting them.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Wife, Guy, Apaches

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

  Keith Richards

  Ideas, Killing, Retiring

  FaceBook post by Keith Richards from Sep 21, 2010

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• You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Idols, Giving

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?  Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

  Tom Robbins

  Making Love, Answers, Serious

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.5, Bantam

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• Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself

  Jon Lajoie

  Eye, Fake, Dumb

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• I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Successful, Ideas, Mind

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• I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

  John le Carre

  Thinking, Two, Laughing

  Interview with Andrew Ross, www.salon.com. October 28, 1996.

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• When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Sight, Ifs

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.515, UPNE

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• In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people like [Al-Qaida leader Osama] bin Laden are able to recruit suiciders, because if you don't have hope, you're attracted to an ideology which says, it's OK to kill people and kill yourself.

  George W. Bush

  Hate, Long, People

  "Marking Fifth Anniversary of Terror Attacks, Bush Tours 9/11 Sites". www.haaretz.com. September 11, 2006.

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• I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

  Woody Allen

  Laughter, Fall, Thinking

  "'Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker'". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• There are times when I think being bipolar gives me the ability to see and want and write things that other people cannot and do not. One of those is writing. Creativity is something that co-presents with bipolarity. There are other times when being bipolar legitimately sucks and leads you to a point where you want to kill yourself. Very odd thing when your brain which, evolutionarily speaking, should want you to survive is telling you to die.

  Haroon Moghul

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

  Devendra Banhart

  People, Giving, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.

  Marguerite Duras

  Drinking, Mind, Able

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

  Lorrie Moore

  Suicidal, Known, Ifs

  Lorrie Moore (2014). “Bark”, p.117, Faber & Faber

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• The difference between poetry and rhetoric
  is being
  ready to kill
  yourself
  instead of your children.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Differences, Poetry

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.106, Crossing Press

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• Kill yourself in training so you don't die fighting.

  Alistair Overeem

  Fighting, Training, Dies

  Twitter post from Aug 5, 2012

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• Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.

  Abdellah Taia

  Kids, Gay, People

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Attitude, Long, Gothic

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• What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.

  Marvin Minsky

  Ignorance, Skills, Names

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• If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

  Eli Wallach

  Ugly, Good And Bad, Bad Movies

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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