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If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.

If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.

"Fictional character: Doc Holliday". "Tombstone", 1993.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.62, Grove Press

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

Song: Everybody Loves Somebody, Album: Collected Cool [3 CD + 1 DVD]

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

"Malkin: Hypocritical Dems Using 'Squirrel Politics' to Distract from Obama's Shady Cronies". nation.foxnews.com. July 12, 2012.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.111, MIT Press

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

"Football fashion: Monochromatic mania" by Jeremy Willis, www.espn.com. October 28, 2017.

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

I have not yet begun to defile myself.

"Fictional character: Doc Holliday". "Tombstone", 1993.

Without stones there is no arch.

"Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.