#dead

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I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.


Rick Moody


#dead #dead people #forth #having #i

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.


Richard M. Nixon


#burning #cold #cold war #communism #deadly

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.


Viggo Mortensen


#build #certain #dead-end #dead-end street #defend

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.


Lewis Mumford


#biological #chief #city #convert #creativity

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.


Enid Nemy


#building #corner #could #dead #designed

If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.


Randy Newman


#another #been #carefree #dead #had

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.


Dennis Nilsen


#clothed #dead #fully #go #got

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.


Robert De Niro


#rest #time #you

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.


Dudley North


#dead #eating #estate #growing #him

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.


Mason Cooley


#dead #delight #mighty