In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
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It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
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If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Judenhass is endlessly disturbing, often unpleasant and incessantly horrifying in its stark coldness. The quotes should never be forgotten or made light… — Marv Wolfman Copy Share Image
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
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“I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled. My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?" "You know. Someone you forget." From the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
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When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage.… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I think brown marks a reunion of peoples, an end to ancient wanderings. Rival cultures and creeds conspire with Spring to create… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Name ten thousand reasons why you never want to die, go and tell someone who might've forgotten. Try to list the endless… — Paul Baribeau Copy Share Image
The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old… — Corazon Aquino Copy Share Image
Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He had a newspaper rolled in his hand, bearing down on me like a puppy that had piddled on the carpet. "Bad… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
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Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the… — Stephen Carter Copy Share Image
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
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The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I had to get the voice back, the precise pitch of Sid's voice and I'd forgotten that I'd pitched him higher than… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you want to go back to Vienna?” he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
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