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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty."

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Lucinda Williams Singer-songwriter
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"When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen."

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