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An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. — Peter Utley

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries. — Mason Cooley

Write your dream obituary and live that life! — Tami Holzman

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary. — Arthur Smith

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices. — Clarence Darrow

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. — Benjamin Franklin

Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case. — Jill Conner Browne

I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary. — Tobias Wolff

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. — Philip Guedalla

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do. — Robert Mankoff

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died. — William Faulkner

When my obituary notice at last appears in The Times, and they say: 'What, I thought he died years ago,' my ghost will gently chuckle. — W. Somerset Maugham

We're all killers at heart ... I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction. — Clarence Darrow

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. — George Jean Nathan

Every menu is an obituary. — Wislawa Szymborska

There's no bad publicity except an obituary. — Brendan Behan

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice. — Barbara Kruger

He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - "just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917". — Jascha Heifetz

As the victim of those impulses she must be looking in the paper for his obituary. — Saul Bellow

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. — Brendan Behan

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. — Billy Sunday

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. — Quentin Crisp

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least. — Spencer Abraham

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life. — James Joyce

When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit — Nicole Krauss

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast. — George Burns

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. — Brendan Behan

One phrase you don't want kicking off your obituary is, Never, in the long history of bungee jumping ... — Dana Gould

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. — Jimmy Breslin

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter. — Freeman Dyson

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section. — Norm Crosby

Obituary: He/she is survived by his/her Want-to-Read/Currently-Reading Goodreads shelf — Brian Alan Ellis

Some people want to amass a great amount of wealth and make a great looking obituary. I'm going to die with more money than is good to leave my son. — Darrell Issa

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary. — Carrie Brownstein

God was long gone before Nietzsche made his death certificate into a slogan, but no one
has yet written the obituary of the Devil. — Thomas Ligotti

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page. — Art Buchwald

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter
it's the obituaries. — Evan Esar

There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered — Chuck Palahniuk

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. — Rupert Murdoch

Live in such a way no one who reads your obituary will be surprised you're a Christian. — Darrell Case

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. — Clarence Darrow

So what if someone wrote your obituary ... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die. — Lou Holtz

Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead. — Mark Harmon

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. — Albert Brooks

It's always the end for now, and in real life, the only full stop is on the obituary page. — Stephen King

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part. — O. Henry