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My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. -- John Updike
Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books. -- Nora Roberts
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. -- Mark Twain
As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death! -- Lola Ridge

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