Famous quotes containing the word killed:
“Mrs. Grayle: You know, thisll be the first time Ive ever killed anyone I knew so little and liked so well. Whats your name?
Philip Marlowe: Philip for short.
Mrs. Grayle: Philip. Philip Marlowe. A name for a duke. Youre just a nice mug.”
—John Paxton (19111985)
“The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man youve killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or its ordinary murder.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“If Ive killed one man, Ive killed two
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.”
—Sylvia Plath (19321963)