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• I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Wish, Stills

  Andy Warhol (1985). “America”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

  Andy Warhol

  Tombstone, Artist, Names

  Andy Warhol, Kynaston McShine (1989). “Andy Warhol: a retrospective”

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• To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Korea, Competition

  "Ai Weiwei: The Dissident". Interview with Hannah Beech and Austin Ramzy, content.time.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  Orson Welles

  Christmas, Fall, Roots

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• While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.

  Allen West

  Country, Memorial Day, Thinking

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• Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.

  Joss Whedon

  Kids, Hated, Wells

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• I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the best comedian who ever lived. Although you can't say that because of Carlin, Cosby and Pryor.

  Ron White

  Years, Comedian, Listening

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• Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.

  David Wilkerson

  Wrath, World, Christ

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• Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

  George Will

  Party, Two, Office

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• If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Would Be, Tomorrow

  "A life cut short: Remembering the tragedy of Amy Winehouse" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. July 24, 2012.

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• My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

  Robert Winston

  Father, Thinking, Doe

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• Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

  Steven Wright

  Night, Gambling, People

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• I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Friends, Humor

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• Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

  Andrew Young

  Diplomats, Diplomacy, Copiers

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• My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Family, Time

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• Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Mean, Reality, Race

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

  Martin Filler

  Accomplishment, Survivor, Oscars

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• Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Bowling, Kind

  "Chris Hardwick discusses his favorite episodes of Nerdist". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2013.

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• Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Realization, Christ, Raised

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• Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.

  Colm Toibin

  Father, Age, Difficult

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• One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Television, Modern

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.52, RosettaBooks

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• Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?

  Jim Morrison

  World, May, Evening

  "Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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• How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Differences, Earth

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.143, Vintage

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• When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together. All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground. And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt. And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses.

  Sherman Alexie

  Goodbye, Lonely, Laughter

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• The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nature, Fall, Clouds

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