"â€Ž When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened."

-- Margaret Mead

#Grief Quotes #Trying Quotes #Married Quotes

“A good bassist determines the direction of any band.”
“But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.”
“I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination.”
“We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.”
“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]
“One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.”
“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.”
“Most of my stories have some basis in fact.”

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