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The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life. -- Eustace Conway
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. -- Naomi Judd
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place. -- Harold Pinter
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. -- Douglas Coupland
Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place. -- Damien Hirst
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. -- Sebastian Franck
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. -- Herbert Spencer
In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word? -- Sharon Stone
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. -- Rebecca West
When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead. -- Graham Coxon
If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem. -- Josh McDowell
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. -- John Galsworthy
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's already interesting. You're not just between places. Things are happening. -- Rebecca Solnit
The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones. -- Dorothea Dix
I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place. -- Barry McGuire
Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force. -- Sarah Polley
I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it. -- Lady Gregory
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that. -- Diane Kruger
As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.' -- Emmanuel Jal
Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living. -- Dave Barry
It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive. -- John Scalzi
While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past. -- Jack Vance
HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that -- Ambrose Bierce

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