Recently Deceased Quotes

• My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

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  Mark Ronson

  Girl   Grandmother   Thinking  

  "Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto.

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• During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.

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  Tom Rachman

  Writing   Past   Careers  

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• Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.

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  Beetlejuice

  People   Strange   Unusual  

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• Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.

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  Roger Bacon

  Philosophy   Perfection   Age  

  "Opus Tertium" by Roger Bacon, (p. 70), (c. 1267).

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• Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

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  Tim Burton

  People   Strange   Unusual  

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• When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

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  Richard K. Morgan

  Mother   Believe   Men  

  Richard K. Morgan (2009). “The Steel Remains”, p.3, Del Rey

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