#dead

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive. ↗

— John French Sloan

#dead #knock #since #speak #them

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#blessing #brought #dead #mixed #very

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives. ↗

— Bruno Walter

#dead #lives

Monuments are for the living, not the dead. ↗

— Frank Wedekind

#living #monuments

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#dead #fish #jealous #swim #tides

This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them. ↗

— Gideon Welles

#brave #brave men #cold #crowd #day

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' ↗

— James Wolcott

#author #autumn #brought #contender #dan

Uncomplicated, no strings sex makes you happy, love makes you miserable. ↗

— Spencer Waking the dead

#bbc-drama-series-waking-the-dead #love #love

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#book #coin #collins #dead #end

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#deadline #inspiration #negative #still #than