Quote by Julie Burchill
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a lif

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to deaths perfect punctuation mark is a smile. – Julie Burchill

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What sort of sap doesnt know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? – Julie Burchill

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Beauty
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As a kid, I grew to define what I didnt want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined. – Julie Burchill

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Women
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No one knows men as such, any more than anyone knows women, and if they do generalise theyre probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one man, yes, or even lots of individual men. – Julie Burchill

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Women
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Other Quotes from
Death
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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. – Alfred Nobel

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Death

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy

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Death

Its an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems dont try to make it posthumous. – Gloria Steinem

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Death

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Death

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Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. – Emily Greene Balch

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Whatever good things we build end up building us. – Jim Rohn

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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. – Tennessee Williams

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Life