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• The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off of the lives of American pilots and soldiers, not with those of their declared Taliban enemies, but with Afghan civilians... There will be no official two-minute silence for the Afghan dead, no newspaper obituaries or memorial services attended by the prime minister, as there were for the victims of the twin towers.

  Seumas Milne

  Air, Two, Silence

  " The innocent dead in a coward's war" by Seumas Milne, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2001.

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• Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Retirement, Wall, Glasses

  Jimmy Breslin (1969). “The gang that couldn't shoot straight”, Viking Adult

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• I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

  Art Buchwald

  Suicide, New York, Bipolar

  Art Buchwald (1994). "Leaving home: a memoir", Thorndike Pr

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• Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

  Clarence Darrow

  Divertido, listo, inteligente

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• Siempre me he preguntado cómo sonaría la necrológica de uno mismo, y tengo la sensación de haber escuchado al menos una parte.

  Spencer Abraham

  Sound, May, Might

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• Se me daban fatal los artículos seguidos. Cuando escribía obituarios, mi madre decía que lo único que conseguía era que murieran en orden alfabético.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Order, Literature

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• There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

  Brendan Behan

  Publicidad

  "The World of Brendan Behan". Book by Sean McCann, 1965.

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• If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?

  Padgett Powell

  Memories, Writing, Liberty

  Padgett Powell (2010). “The Interrogative Mood”, p.22, Profile Books

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• Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries - but it is a force stronger than crime.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Success, Stronger, News

  "This I Believe". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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• Me levanto cada mañana y leo la columna de obituarios. Si no está mi nombre, desayuno.

  George Burns

  Morning, Names, Breakfast

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• Bast crouched down and began making weird chittering noises. Uh-oh. She was imitating birds. I'd seen enough cats do this when they were stalking. Suddenly my own obituary flashed in my head: Carter Kane, 14, tragically died in Paris wen he was eaten by his sister's cat, Muffin.

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, Paris, Bird

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• Never was it [Capitalism] imposed on life as a system, or at all. It grew out of life, not all at once but gradually, and is therefore one of the great natural designs. When it was found and identified by such men as Adam Smith, who wrote its bible, and Karl Marx, who wrote its obituary too soon, it was already working.

  Garet Garrett

  Men, Design, Natural

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• One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping.

  Dana Gould

  Jumping, Long, Kicking

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• I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Google, Google Search, Erase

  "Cómo ser mejor persona en 2015, según los creadores de Portlandia". Entrevista con Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. 8 de enero de 2015.

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• I think all the obituaries for newspapers we're hearing are premature. Many papers are belatedly but successfully adapting to the new news environment. I

  Arianna Huffington

  Thinking, News, Paper

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• Vi desaparecer en un abrir y cerrar de ojos los arrecifes de coral que estudié cuando era estudiante, y durante décadas escribí y hablé de las necrológicas oceánicas. Pero los grandes problemas aterradores sin soluciones conducen a la apatía, no a la acción.

  Nancy Knowlton

  Océano, Ojo, Miedo

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• I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is going to die, with excruciating detail. If I were that patient, I would have fired myself and looked for a doctor who would look for a solution.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Writing, Fishing

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• The first thing you should do when you get up is read the obituaries. You never know when you'll see a name that will just make your day.

  Edward James Salisbury

  Death, Suicide, Names

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• Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

  Austin Kleon

  Coward, Near Death, Near Death Experience

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.27, Workman Publishing

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• Until today, you may not have realized that your life provides the content of your obituary. Just for today, examine your life. Think about all of the things you want to leave behind. Remember, the good thing about doing this today is that you still have time to rewrite your life's content if necessary.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Thinking, May, Want

  Iyanla Vanzant (2000). “Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind”, Simon and Schuster

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• David [Halberstam] siguió haciendo lo que hacía porque le encantaba. En uno de los obituarios que leí decía que hacía periodismo por la misma razón que el gran Julius Irving hacía baloncesto: Le encantaba hacerlo incluso cuando tenía un mal día.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Basketball, Bad Day, Journalism

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Dislike Someone, Wish

  "La historia de mi vida". Libro de Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

  Ellen Goodman

  Writing, People, Movement

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• When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Moving, Circles, Mind

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1988). "Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner", Vintage

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• I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

  Héctor Elizondo

  Thinking, Important, Bed

  "Julie Andrews and Hector Elizondo talk The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 12, 2004.

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