Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first."
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Coffins
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Aesop Rock
Rapper
"Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it."
Bette Davis
Actress
"The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin"
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections."
Stan Dale
Television Personality
"Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die."
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"My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them."
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"We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers."
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"The smallest coffins are the heaviest."
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"When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now.""
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"When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death."
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"The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin."
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"Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough."
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"...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms."
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"Folks always look good in their coffins."
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"Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead."
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"Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid."
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"i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)"
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"I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside."
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"Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see."
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"I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin."
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"Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?"
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"This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism."
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"A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration."
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"A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out."
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"Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say."
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