"Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between."

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Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.41, University of Missouri Press

Langston Hughes

#Mean Quotes #Dying Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.”
“I like being married, but it was never something I felt I had to do.”
“It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. . . . It looms so large as the real origin of the modern world and of the modern mentality that our customary periodization of European history has become an anachronism and an encumbrance.”
“Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.”
“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.”
“The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.”
“I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.”
“Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.”

Source : "In truth" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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