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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. – Cyril Connolly

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Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. – Cyril Connolly

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Hate
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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. – Cyril Connolly

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War
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly

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Media
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Epitaphs
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When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. Thats the story of my private life. – Gloria Swanson

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The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: He kept down the cost and set the type right. – Gregory Nunn

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Epitaphs

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star! – Helen Hunt Jackson

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Epitaphs

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. – Proverb

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One is rated by others as he rates himself. – Proverb

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein, possibly a paraphrase by Roger Sessions

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The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato

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Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. – Attributed to both Joe Adcock and Curt Simmons

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