"Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively."

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Source : "My Dark Places". Book by James Ellroy, 1996.

James Ellroy

#People Quotes #Claims Quotes #Dead People Quotes

“Sublime moments refracted, Even if only for seconds, Caught forever in your soul.”

Source : Scott Hastie, “We Are Anything”
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”

Source : Hal Borland (2014). “Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country”, p.77, Open Road Media
“If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.”
“My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.”
“When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purpose of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.”

Source : Wilford Woodruff (1946). “The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff”
“Here lies Gomez Addams -- he was good for nothing.”
“The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply solely to biological processes and not to processes of the spirit.”

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