“Do you kill people?'
'Not regularly. It's too much trouble making my peace with the gods afterwards.”
Time to Depart
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Souce: Geraldine Taylor. Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser. Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., 1998, 189.

“The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
"John Rivers" in The Genius and the Goddess (1955)
Source: The Genius And The Goddess

Relayed by Bishop William F. Anderson as a remark by a friend of Harding, in "Pictures Harding as Man of Prayer" (2 April 1922) New York Times
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“I have no intention of being killed, there's too much I still want to do with my life.”
Quote from a late letter of Bazille he wrote in 1870, shortly before he died in the Franco-Prussian War; Bazille joined General de Barrail's staff
1866 - 1870
Source: Les Impressionists autour de Paris: tableau de banlieu avec peintres, ed. Jean-Michel Puydebat – SEM Chateau d’Auvers, 1993, p. 16