You're beautiful, like a May fly.

But did thee feel the earth move?

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.