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John Cage Composer, Musician
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"If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd."

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John Gordon Sinclair Actor, Director
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"I had to kiss Ruthie Henshall once with a cold. It was the final romantic moment in She Loves Me; as we separated, I noticed this arc of glistening mucus threaded between us."

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet
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"In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them."

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive."

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Mary McCarthy Author
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"In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final."

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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money."

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Matthew Lewis Actor, Author
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"The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere."

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Kyle Smith Actor
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"The good news is that “The Hangover Part III” isn’t a rerun like the second episode. The bad news is everything else. For all the promise of mayhem and WTF moments, the final episode hits you with all the force of a warm can of O’Doul’s."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
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"Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal."

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