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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty whe...more

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People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

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People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it m...more

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Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look so pretty ...more

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Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of ...more

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You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

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It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but m...more

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I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and...more

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When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables,...more

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For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

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Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths tha...more

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The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about...more

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Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

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I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.