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Farewells
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"Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any doubt of its finality." -- William Ernest Hocking.
Everyone thinks about death from time to time, even if no one really expects it to happen to them. In this book you'll find a wide-ranging collection of quotations about death, spoken or written by the famous, the near-famous or the not-so-famous. For example:
"I am dying, with the help of many doctors." --Alexander the Great.
"I did not get my spaghetti. I got Spaghetti-Os. I want the press to know this." -- Condemned murderer Thomas Grasso, referring to his last meal.
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." -- Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Paul Erland
I'm a writer living near Nashville, and maybe the only one within a 50-mile radius who's never written a song. Writing fiction is my preference, but journalism provides my daily bread. I'm from the Clark Kent school of journalism -- I never carry a pad to take notes, but rely on my super-memory. Actually, in my stories I make up quotes, making people sound more interesting and well-spoken than they are, so they never object. Just as Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood") gave birth to the "non-fiction novel?" I'm working on popularizing the "fictional news" story.
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