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Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. — Robert Falcon Scott

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless. — Allen Klein

That girl, dead and gone, her spirit trapped forever just inside town limits - she'd come from someplace, was going somewhere. Until destiny had stepped into the road in front of her, stopped her forward motion, drawn a killing claw against the white, fluttering swell of her future. Whispering, 'Oh no, you don't.' When you made plans, the saboteurs came out to play. — Kat Rosenfield Amelia Anne is...

For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now. — Robin Hobb Assassin's Fate

He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday. — S. E. Hinton The Outsiders

After my father's death, I watched my mother and Uncle Teddy - my father's last living brother - plead to the judge to allow his alleged killer, Sirhan Sirhan, to escape the death penalty. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Framed: Why...

His date kept saying to him, "How horrible . . . Don't, darling. Please, don't. Not here." Imagine giving somebody a feel and telling them about a guy committing suicide at the same time! They killed me. — J. D. Salinger The Catcher in...

Romeo: There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me to Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee. — William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

Is it best to know about a child's death, even one so horrible, or to know that the child lives but that you will never, never see him again?

Now enter, single file, the hosts who died early on,in Acts 3 and 4, or between scenes.The miraculous return of all those lost without a trace. The thought that they've been waiting patiently...

But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell...

That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

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