Quotes about killing
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“P. S. Do no violence. Kill no one.”

Luis Alberto Urrea (1955) Mexican-American poet

The Hummingbird's Daughter

Cassandra Clare photo
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“I want to lay my kill at your feet.”

Source: Blood and Chocolate

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“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”

Warren Ellis (1968) English comics and fiction writer

Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

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“A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.”

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 40, The Rat Who Wound the Clock

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“It’s hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”

Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 9 (p. 147)

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“If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

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“When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.”

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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“It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

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“While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant

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“Fang was going to kill me. And after I was dead, he would kill me again.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

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“This is the power of a kiss:
It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“(If plan KTB kill the bastard) didn't work, well, gray would resort to Plan B: Operation Oh Sh”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Jewel of Atlantis

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“You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Variant: She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
Source: I Am the Messenger

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“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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“Killing people is easier than it should be.” Dad put on his beret. “Staying alive is harder.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

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“THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.”

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician

A message he would variously write or post on his guitar, beginning in 1941.
Variant: THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.

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“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

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“As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.”

Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba

Speech at the International Conference on Financing for Development (March 2002) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2002/ing/f210302i.html

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“The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

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“In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
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“I know who and what I am. I am The Executioner, and I don't date Vampires. I kill them.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Final line
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Guilty Pleasures (1993)

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“If at first you don't succeed, kill your opponent.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Firstlife