„Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.“

— Harper Lee

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„madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.“
— Virginia Woolf
„any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man“
— William Faulkner