"You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman."
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"Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined."
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"My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]"
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"Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories."
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"Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside."
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"Sometimes I think He looks down and says, "Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little."
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"Welcome to Perdido beach, where our motto is: Radiation, what radiation?"
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"My looks had gone from well-kempt cheerleader to apocalyptic disasterpiece."
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"To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost."
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"White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent."
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"While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone."
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"Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth."
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"You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there."
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"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff."
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"How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it."
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"To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly."
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"Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are"
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"You may be gone but you're never over."
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"I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone."
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"I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money."
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