“If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.”

Source: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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British writer 1955

Ralph Smart

“You know, there are people dead and buried in their graves still affecting people, because no one ever forgave them for what they did”

Ysabella Brave (1979) American singer

"Forgiveness" (7 July 2007)
Context: If that is not the case, then we are talking about something that happened in the past, even if it was today, this morning, but it's over. You know, there are people dead and buried in their graves still affecting people, because no one ever forgave them for what they did — that's what not forgiving does — it lets an event live and live with bitterness and hurt, when it needs to be let go.

“I would not have him sorrow at my hard lot, or say at the burial, Thus we lay out Socrates, or, Thus we follow him to the grave or bury him; for false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Be of good cheer then, my good Crito, and say that you are burying my body only, and do with that as is usual, and as you think best.”

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

Plato, Phaedo

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer

“if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: For the Time Being

“Life, struck sharp on death,
Makes awful lightning.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

Bk. I, l. 210-214. Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857) Context: Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. His last word was, 'Love–' 'Love, my child, love, love!'–(then he had done with grief) 'Love, my child.' Ere I answered he was gone, And none was left to love in all the world.

“As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.”

Jim Starlin (1949) Comic creator

On the Death of the New Gods storyline, as quoted in "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods" at Comicon.com (August 2007) http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=006822

“But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”

James Dickey (1923–1997) American writer

“If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.”

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