Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
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Chapter 10 (p. 116)Robert Charles Wilson
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything.
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.Gertrude Stein
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover.
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Saint saint a saint.Gertrude Stein
Do you believe in dreams, Uncle Simeon? I do; I believe in nothing else. One night I dreamed that invisible enemies had me tied to a dead cypress. Long red arrows were sticking into me from my head to my feet, and the blood was flowing. On my head they had placed a crown of thorns, and intertwined with the thorns were fiery letters which said: "Saint Blasphemer." I am Saint Blasphemer, Rabbi Simeon. So you'd better not ask me anything else, or I'll start my blasphemies.
Nikos Kazantzakis
When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
Anton Chekhov
A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after an autopsy, is less than a corpse.
Emil Cioran
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