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Tag Name "Obituary" (44)

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My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.
Norm Crosby
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
Barbara Kruger
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Decency is not news it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.
Robert A. Heinlein
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A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.
Tom Rachman
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
Albert Brooks
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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
Clarence Darrow
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
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So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
Lou Holtz
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It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
Roger Maris
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It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.
P. G. Wodehouse
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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan Behan
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
Quentin Crisp
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What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
William Faulkner
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There's no such thing as bad publicity.
P. T. Barnum
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Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.
Mason Cooley
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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?
Padgett Powell
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan
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Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.
Mark Harmon
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Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.
Jimmy Breslin
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Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.
Austin Kleon
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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