Deader Quotes
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends...
j. r. r. tolkien— No. 180: To a Mr. Thompson (1956)
Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction.
— Arthur C. Clarke, The Sands of Mars, 1951.
