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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

— Walter Lord

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

— Paul Reiser

It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

— Lil' Kim

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

— Molly Sims

And she was fair as is the rose in May.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.

— Bobbi Kristina Brown

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

— Rod Taylor

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother's favorite photograph was one of herself at twenty-four years old, unbearably beautiful, utterly glamorous, in a black-straw cartwheel hat, dark-red lipstick, and a smart black suit, her notepad on a cocktail table. I know nothing about that woman.

— Amy Bloom

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

— Ron Ben-Israel

She made a ravishing corpse.

— Ronald Firbank