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

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

Brendan Behan

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

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

Rupert Murdoch

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

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

Albert Brooks

Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, 'Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.'

Gordon Gee

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

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

Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.

Lesley Manville

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

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

Peter Utley

The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn't germinate until late 2007 when I came across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of American Sign Language.

Kenneth Oppel

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

Robert Mankoff

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

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

George Jackson

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

Brendan Behan

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

Walter Cronkite

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

Clarence Darrow

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