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Meghan O'Rourke has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group…
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One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you…
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If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
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The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are…
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Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.
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Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.
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Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about…
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A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
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Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in…
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To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's…
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And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
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But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
— George Eliot
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
— Seneca the Younger
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Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.
— William Romaine
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In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes…
— Bob Blumer
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
— Sallust
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Money makes even bastards legitimate.
— Billy Wilder
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At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability…
— Don Nickles
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Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long,…
— Nate Ruess
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Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
— Michel Gondry
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Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.
— Stephen Walt
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