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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. – David Mamet

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Theres nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It wont ring from room service your mother wont be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, youre dead. – David Mamet

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I hate to say this, but Ill repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink. – Jack Kevorkian

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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

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Theres something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now. – Angelina Jolie

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I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. – William Shakespeare

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