George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses."
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Corpses
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Eugene McCarthy
Politician
"The mortician interviewing the corpses"
Janice Dickinson
Model, Author
"As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is."
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"Under each formula lies a corpse."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse."
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"A corpse is what's left after waking too often."
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"Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead."
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"Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses."
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"One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well."
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"A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present."
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"The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories."
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"In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected."
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