Death
On June 15, 1936, at the age of 67, Moore was shot to death on the lawn of his home in East Orange, New Jersey, by an unemployed inventor who became enraged after finding that an invention he filed for, was already the subject of a patent granted to Moore.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“if once the message greet him
That his True Love doth stay,
If Death should come and meet him,
Love will find out the way!”
—Unknown. Love Will Find Out the Way (l. 5356)
“Im afraid of needles.
Im tired of rubber sheets and tubes.
Im tired of faces that I dont know
and now I think that death is starting.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (19061984)