Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. They stood like the naked pipes of a vast derelict calliope, their mouths cut into frantic vents. And now the great hand of mania descended upon one hundred-throated, unending scream.

~ Ray Bradbury

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Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.

~ Cassandra Clare

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Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.

~ Emily Cale

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