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It is not normal for a body to remain horizontal; beyond a certain length of time it attracts concern. Death and burial ('laid to rest') are seen as the natural horizontal states, which is surely why the calculated falsity of perpendicular deaths, such as hangings, crucifixions, burnings at the stakes, etc. produce such indelible shock.

Murray Bail
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It is not normal for a body to remain horizontal; beyond a certain length of time it attracts concern. Death and burial ('laid to rest') are seen as the natural horizontal states, which is surely why the calculated falsity of perpendicular deaths, such as hangings, crucifixions, burnings at the stakes, etc. produce such indelible shock.

Murray Bail, Eucalyptus
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Life is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau
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Live vertically, not horizontally.

Shannon L. Alder
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Living closer to the center of our being is the practice of a lifetime, but so, too, is skillfully living on the horizontal plane-the surface of life-where our purpose for being on the planet is uniquely expressed. Redefining moments are simply energy vortexes that draw the authentic self up (vertically) and out (horizontally) and into present moment awareness, revealing it to the light of day and the gifts it holds.

Dennis Merritt Jones, Your Redefining Moments: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
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Payne sought clarification. “Vertical or horizontal?”“Horizontal, of course.”“Sorry but I can’t help you.” “Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she was dead since I work at a cemetery. Her face struck a chord though. So, I rummaged around in the old Rory memory bank, and Emily is what rings a bell. Didn’t we go to school with an Emily? Tenth or eleventh grade, if I recall it correctly.

Ed Lynskey, Smoking on Mount Rushmore: 16 New & Selected Short Stories
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Why endure verticality when you can be horizontal?

Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang
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The vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

John le Carré
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Life is like a curve, horizontally or vertically, we are at origin point

Estiana Cahyawati
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I am diagonally parked among the vertically parallel people of this horizontal universe.

Vikrmn, 10 Alone
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Horizontal (human-centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted.

Matt Chandler, Into the Great Outdoors
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