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Cyril Connolly
: Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
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It was beautiful, of course; I couldn't deny that. Everything was green: the trees, their trunks covered with moss, their branches hanging with a canopy of it, the ground covered with ferns. Even the air filtered down greenly through the leaves. It was too green — an alien planet.
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Stephen King :
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Three-thirty in the morning...To Ray Garraty it seemed the longest minute of the longest night of his entire life. It was low tide, dead ebb, the time when the sea washes back, leaving slick mudflats covered with straggled weed, rusty beer cans, rotted prophylactics, broken bottles, smashed buoys, and green-mossed skeletons in tattered bathing trunks. It was dead ebb.
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Learned Hand :
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We like rather to dream of a body of young men as a live thing, as a tree where all the branches are nourished by a single sap, and where each part is meaningless and incomplete except in connection with its fellows. You may lop away the dead branches, you may bend the trunk, you may dig about it and water it; but leave it to assume its own form, do not constrain the peculiar roots, or you will have a crippled, gnarled monster, and no tree.
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Paul Eldridge :
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Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
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John Donne :
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The world's whole sap is sunk: The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interred; yet all these seem to laugh, Compared with me, who am their epitaph.
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Conrad Aiken :
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And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us forever.
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In the mazes of loitering people, the watchful and furtive, The shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves, In the drowse of the sunlight, among the low voices, I suddenly face you
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Georges Clemenceau :
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In the distance huge trees were still blazing, around us was a waste of ashes and of half-consumed boughs, and the falling rain seemed only to quicken the dying conflagration. In some of the great green boles were fearful gaping wounds through which the sap was oozing, while some tall trees still stretched to heaven their triumphant crown of foliage above a trunk all charred that would never sprout again. The Brazilians contemplate spectacles such as this with a wholly indifferent eye, and, indeed, even with satisfaction, for they see in the ruin only a promise of future harvests. To me the scene possessed only the horror of a slaughter-house.
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Federico Garcia Lorca :
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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Edward Hoagland :
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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
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Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.
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